When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
~ Madeleine L'engle
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~ Lester Bangs
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
~ Henry James
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
~ Robert Crumb
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
~ Christo
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
~ Wole Soyinka
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
~ Barrett Foa
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
~ Richard Serra
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
~ Denis Waitley
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
~ Maurice Ravel
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
~ Chuck Close
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
~ Stendhal
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
~ Charles De Lint
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
~ Carl Andre
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
~ Damien Hirst
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
~ André Gide
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
~ Henri Matisse
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
~ Paul Valéry
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
~ Henry Moore
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
~ Novalis
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
~ Isadora Duncan
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
~ Paul Klee
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
~ Maria Montessori
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
~ Eddie Vedder
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
~ Johnny Vegas
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
~ Whitfield Diffie
Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.
~ David Petraeus
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
~ Sandra Day O'connor
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
~ Caroline Kennedy
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
~ Angela Davis
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
