Quotes and Sayings About Works Of Art
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it...
-- Andre Breton -
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
-- Anton Ehrenzweig -
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
-- Antonin Artaud -
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
-- Benedetto Croce -
In every work of art, the artist himself is present.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
-- Claude Debussy -
Any genuine work of art generates new work.
-- Donald Barthelme -
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
-- Edvard Munch -
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
-- Erwin McManus -
You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
-- Erwin McManus -
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.
-- Herbert Read -
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
-- Louise Bourgeois -
A work of art doesn't have to be explained,
-- Louise Bourgeois -
Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?
-- Marcel Duchamp -
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
-- Niklas Luhmann -
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
-- Pablo Picasso -
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
-- Patrick Kavanagh -
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
-- Paul Cezanne -
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
-- Paul Schrader -
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
-- Peter Greenaway -
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
-- Randall Jarrell
