1.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Louise Bourgeois
'A masterpiece does not require elucidation. If you have no response, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't stir something within you, I have been unsuccessful.'
2.
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Antonin Artaud
3.
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
Terence McKenna
7.
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
Edvard Munch
8.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
Pablo Picasso
10.
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
Paul Schrader
13.
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
15.
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
17.
You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
Erwin McManus
20.
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
Pablo Picasso
23.
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
Niklas Luhmann
24.
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
Simone Weil
26.
A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.
Eckhart Tolle
27.
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
Erwin McManus
28.
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
Marshall McLuhan
32.
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
Randall Jarrell
33.
I declare peace as the greatest work of art.
Wolf Vostell
34.
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
35.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
Leo Tolstoy
37.
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
Mason Cooley
39.
The work of art
acts like another living person
with whom we are conversing.
Anton Ehrenzweig
40.
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Jonathan Sacks
41.
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
Yann Martel
42.
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
P. D. James
43.
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.
Brian Eno