Quotes of: Art-work Keyword

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell every...

Charles Saatchi

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Evan Ross

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and u...

Edward Steichen

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

Jim Lee

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

Max Bill

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzh...

Ronnie Dunn

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Siri Hustvedt

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

Sol LeWitt

Success is a strategy. Success is planned and also implemented, its never by accident, it's certainly not by chance either (so keep working it! )

The Art of Manifesting Abundance

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

Lost for Words

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani: 58 Movements for Eternal Youth from Ancient Tibet

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

Love

I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by my father to learn martial arts, as that is the only place we could afford given that I would also work there to support my training.

Akshay Kumar

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexandre Dumas

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you

Waiting for Mercy

When experiencing a work of art, a curious exchange takes place; the work projects its aura, and we project our own emotions and precepts on the work. The melancholy in Michelangelo's architecture is fundamentally the viewer's sense of his/her own me...

Juhani Pallasmaa