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«Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
building, drive, drives, irrepressible, market, marketed, teachers, work of art
«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
artistic, art critic, contemplating, critic, detach, detaching, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary work, specific, The Critic, work of art
«The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ant, cave, cave in, communal, framework, heap, In the City, in turn, simpler, The City, urban, work of art
«The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
crystal, devoid, devoid of, facet, facets, fragment, hardness, Interior, luster, of value, regularities, regularity, rigidity, the Crystal, work of art
«Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Rest,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
qualities, repose, reposed, reposes, reposing, simplicity, True Value, work of art
«The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| Keywords:
engineering, foot, footed, human foot, The Engineer, work of art
«The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Meaning,
Understanding
| Keywords:
work of art
«The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
English, immoral, interest, in question, Mass, massed, public, public works, the English, The Public Interest, told, work in, work of art