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Works Of Art Quotes - Page 2

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

Marcel Duchamp, Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (1999). “Marcel Duchamp, respirateur”, Hatje Cantz Pub

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

"The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrel, p. 200l, 1969.

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

Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.10, Knopf Canada

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.28, Faber & Faber

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8083, e-artnow

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press