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It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.
— Johnny Rich
No great work of art is ever finished.
— Michelangelo
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
— Niklas Luhmann
Every shift is a work of art.
— Herta Muller
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
— Jacob Bronowski
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
— Robert McKee
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
— Miuccia Prada
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
— Gustave Flaubert
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
— Maurizio Cattelan
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— Hippolyte Taine
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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
The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
— Jean Cocteau
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
— Barbara Goldsmith
I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.
— Molly Crabapple
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
— Marshall McLuhan
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
— Sufjan Stevens
Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
— Robert Smithson
What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
— Kurt Vonnegut
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
— Aldo Leopold
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
— Simone Weil
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
— Carol Bly
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
— David Gerrold
The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;
— Julian Barnes
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
— Russell Sherman
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— Ewan Clayton
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
— Ernest Becker
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art. — William Butler Yeats
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
— Susan Sontag
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.
— Kenneth Anger
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
— Edward Albee
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
— Edward G. Robinson
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.
— Fred Ross
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
— V.S. Pritchett
I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
If we want less and less, we may in fact receive more and more of what we need. It may work like that.
— Art Hochberg
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
You too are a work of art.
— Bernie Siegel
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
— Peter Gabriel
One great work of art inspired by another.
— Dan Brown
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.
— Martyn Rooney
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
— Steve Prefontaine
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.
— Ferdinand Hodler
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
— Henri Matisse
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
— Paul Schrader
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
— Amit Kalantri
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
— Robert Frost
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
— Susan Sontag
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
— Anthony Burgess
Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.
— Henry James
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
— E. M. Forster
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
— Shinichi Suzuki
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
— John Hersey
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
