Work Of Art Quotes
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A work of art is a confession.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.
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The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.
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Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
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The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most open-minded and willing to think about it.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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Every work of art is about everything.
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With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
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Farming is a poor way to make a living, at least around here, because you have to go into factory farming to make it pay. It is the best hobby there is—only 'hobby' is too little a word. The best way of life. Not just because you learn forty different trades, and not just because you follow the seasons, but because you get to spend your whole life producing a single work of art. That is, the farm itself.
