T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The work is to be shared and not consumed, if it were, it would not be a work of art.”
“The Work is to bring the outer and the inner into harmony. (p. 103)”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.”
“The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.”
“The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.”
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”
“The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.”
“The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.”
“The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.”
“The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!”
“The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.”
“The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.”
“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”
“The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed ... with Copious Annotations
“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.”
“The work of a freelancer is never done.”
“The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.”
“The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.”
“The work of a man is the explanation of the man.”
Source: Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti
“The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”
“The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.”
“The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.”
“The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.”
“The work of a teacher is more about working on the mind and the shaping of destinies than it is about the writings on the board and the notes in the bags.”
“The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.”
“The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.”
Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”
Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.”
“The work of an apostle, from the first ones sent out by Jesus to anyone aligned with the reign of peace, is to be God's loving word to every part of the world. Echoing the Word, they are sent out to confront the powers and principalities by rejecting state violence and revolutionary violence, and, instead putting on the armor of peace.”
Source: Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church
“The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.”
“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”
“The work of art
acts like another living person
with whom we are conversing.”
Source: The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.”
“The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.”
Source: Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
“The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
“The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.”
Source: Going to the Territory
“The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.”
“The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.”
Source: Art as a Social System
“The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”
“The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.”
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.
The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.
In such a way that they have the whole world as background.”
“The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.”
Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde
“The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.”
“The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”