Quotes About Works

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Archer there was room for him if he didn't mind sharing a table. "Works for me," Archer said amiably. He was led to a table that was nestled right next to the stage, where a man in his fifties sat.

All successful writers use resonance to enhance their stories by drawing power from stories that came before, by resonating with their readers' experiences, and by resonating within their own works.

I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.

No one will ever be moved to Spirit-led action without faith. One's faith is not genuine unless it moves him or her to action. Faith and works are necessary companions. The faith produces the works, while the works demonstrate the genuineness of the faith.

Such depth of loneliness cannot be understood or communicated but it can be shared…He resolved if he came out alive to devote himself to good and creative works.

Unfold your inner strength by setting a good example to others. Spread the good works in anyway possible.

Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

250Christianity is no mere revelation of God in the past, but it is, in connection with the past, a work in the midst of this and every time. All other religions try to obtain salvation by the works of men, but Christianity makes a strong protest against this; it is not autosoteric but heterosoteric; it does not preach self-redemption, but glories in redemption by Christ alone. Man does not save himself, and does not save God, but God alone saves man, the whole man, man for eternity.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

The genius of Proust is the totality of the works of Proust

All right," I said, since there wasn't much else to say. "But I don't know if I can show you how blood spatter works without showing you blood." He