Quotes on Works Of Art

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

...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.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life