A Quotes
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.”
Source: Be Careful What You Wish For
“A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.”
Source: Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers
“A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.”
“A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.”
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
“A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”
“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
Source: Beatrice & Virgil
“A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.”
“A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.”
“A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.”
“A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.”
Source: Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays
“A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.”
“A work of real merit finds favor at last.”
Source: Table-talk
“A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.”
“A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.”
Source: This Business of Living
“A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.”
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life is only the beginning of the task. The task approached in tenderness and faith is to hold up unquestioningly, without choice and without fear, the rescued fragment before all eyes and in the light of a sincere mood. It is to show its vibration, its colour, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its colour, reveal the substance of its truth -- disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment. In a single-minded attempt of that kind, if one be deserving and fortunate, one may perchance attain to such clearness of sincerity that at last the presented vision of regret or pity, of terror or mirth, shall awaken in the hearts of the beholders that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world.”
“a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“A work well begun is half-ended.”
“A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already”
“A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.”
“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”
Source: Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way
“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.”
Source: The Professor's House
“A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.”
Source: The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking
“A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.”
“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
“A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.”
“A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.”
“A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.”
“A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“A working artist is a playing artist.”
Source: The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
“A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.”
“A working class hero is something to be.”
“A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.”
“A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.”
“A workman is not just a workman.
A laborer is not just a laborer.
An office worker is not just an office worker.
They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine.
They are the machine itself.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“A workman who gives all his might to labor's unto the lord and his employer, labor not just for himself but lords it all to the govern rulers and principle guides of higher places.”
“A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.”
“A workout is a pair act, do it with heart and mind and gain in your life.”
“A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.”
“A world anemic in love needs a day to celebrate love. I am a lover eternal, for me every day is valentine's day.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“A world at prayer is a world at peace”
“A world away is a world apart.”
“A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.”
Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe
“A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”