Works Of Art Quotes (page 11)

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• space
• words
• art

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 Rainer Maria Rilke

• life
• art
• work

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself Antonin Artaud

• self
• art
• work

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art. Michel Foucault

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• work
• literature

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

• art
• work
• book

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. Charlie Chaplin

• art
• work
• lies

Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime Theodor Adorno

• art
• work
• works

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Alfred Jarry

• little
• moments
• together

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. Stephen Sondheim

• art
• work
• approaching

Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art. Oscar Wilde

• real
• art
• joy

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. Robert Henri

• powerful
• work
• power words

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art. Abraham Joshua Heschel

• art
• work
• art is

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. E. M. Forster

• lies
• work
• art

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. George Orwell

• art
• work
• thinking

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract. Francis Schaeffer

• social work
• saying
• art

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything. Kurt Vonnegut