True Work Of Art Quotes

#1. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

Mervyn Levy

#3. Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

Caspar David Friedrich

#4. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#5. The true work of art
is but a shadow of the divine perfection

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#6. A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

A.D. Posey

#7. Tasting is an act of pleasure, and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Muriel Barbery

#8. The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

Wassily Kandinsky

#9. Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

Roger Scruton

#10. Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

Albert Camus

#13. The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Cyril Connolly

#14. A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

John Marin

#15. When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Waylon Jennings

#16. There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Camille Paglia

#17. The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay ...

Robert Henri

#18. Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.

Sally Mann

#19. It's the work itself that's important to me.' Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true?

Emily St. John Mandel

#20. Kurosawa was one of film's true greats ... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.

George Lucas

#21. I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art ... It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.

Maurizio Cattelan

#22. The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Thomas Merton

#23. You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

Laurence Overmire

#24. Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#25. The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Muriel Spark

#26. A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Yann Martel

#27. The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Marty Rubin

#28. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

Claire Messud

#29. Never judge a work of art by its defects.
They same is true with people.

Jose N. Harris

#30. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

Robert Aris Willmott

#31. Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

William Holden