Works Of Art Quotes - Page 9

• More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Important, Painting

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• The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Way

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Art, Perspective

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• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  Patrick Duffy

  Art, Dancer, Canvas

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• One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Real, Different

  "The Story of Art". Book by Ernst Gombrich, 1950.

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Add, Spirituality

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• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Nice, Moving

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• Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

  Cornell Capa

  Photography, Art, Men

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• he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Drawing, Lines

  Dutch art-magazine: 'Eenheid' no. 283, November 6, 1915.

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• I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Eye, Order

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• Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Hands, Tea

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• You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Faith, Art

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.472, Penguin

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• There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Philosophical, Unique

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.76, Macmillan

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• To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Art, Race

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• You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Art, Keys

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Honor, Criticism

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

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• [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Issues, Political

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• Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Elements, Crafts

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• Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Stories, Crafts

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• The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

  Henry James

  Art, Writing, Mind

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• All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Motivation, Spring

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Ideas

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