Work Of Art Quotes
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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.
Alfred Brendel
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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.
Ernst Junger
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The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
Benedetto Croce
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee
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Every work of art is about everything.
Eli Siegel
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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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.
Noel Perrin
