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“Art before the modern period is as much art as Neanderthal man is man'. It is for this reason that around the same time I replaced the term "work" for art proposition. Because a conceptual work of art in the traditional sense, is a contradiction in terms.”
Joseph Kosuth (born 1945) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph Kosuth. (1969), as cited in: Claude Gintz, ‎Musée d'Art Moderne Paris (1989). L'Art conceptuel, une perspective: exposition au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 22 nov. 1989 - 18 fév. 1990. p. 42
“Works of art are analytic propositions. That is, if viewed within their context – as art – they provide no information whatsoever about any matter of fact. A work of art is a tautology in that it is a presentation of the artist’s intention, that is, he is saying that that particular work of art is art, which means, is a definition of art.”
Joseph Kosuth (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Social relations with one's work associates tend to deteriorate under the stress of conflict. In part, this reaction reflects the person's general dissatisfaction with the work situation. Attitudes toward those role senders who create the conflict become worse, just as do those toward the job and the organization in general.”
Robert L. Kahn (1918–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Organizations make two responses to deal with the behavior control problem. The first change involves the substitution of craft or professional training of the work force for the detailed centralized programming of the work processes.”
Jay R. Galbraith (1939–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As collage technique replaced oil paint, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvas. Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk. There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one television screen, just think of the variety of images you can get. It's so cool. It's like going to the moon.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manifesto, New York, October 1965, as cited in (1971). The computer in art. p. 95
“I think that at that time and practically ever since, the underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.”
Alexander Calder (1898–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human body is made to work hard. When there is no work to do, our physical health deteriorates. Doctors have to tell people to walk like it is some kind of breakthrough exercise technology. Once, I watched in awe as a personal trainer authoritatively led a pair of forty something adults on a walk around their own neighborhood. He was a seventy-five dollar an hour human dog-walker.”
Jack Donovan (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The goal of civilization seems to be to eliminate work and risk, but the world has changed more than we have. Our bodies crave work and sex, our minds crave risk and conflict.”
Jack Donovan (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The old murals came from the heart,” Zima said. “I painted on a huge scale because that was what the subject matter seemed to demand.” “It was good work,” I said. “It was hack work. Huge, loud, demanding, popular, but ultimately soulless. Just because it came from the heart didn’t make it good.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had work to be getting on with. I’ve always had work to be getting on with. It’s what the universe was put there for: to give me things to do.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This work... was designed in the first instance to be a second edition of a Treatise on Algebra, published in 1830, and which has been long out of print; but I have found it necessary, in carrying out the principles developed in that work, to present the subject in so novel a form, that I could not with propriety consider it in any other light than as an entirely new treatise.”
George Peacock (1791–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Artists are mechanics who work with their hands, making things. Artists are involved with the means of creativity, the nature of skills, the revelation of making. Art comes from the work, I see a painting as an expressive entity. There's no picture that I know of where the subject carries as much expressive possibility as the actual execution of the picture.”
Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.”
Roger Fry (1866–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: E M Forster -0bituary of Roger Fry ,1940 ,'Biography of RogerFry'by Virginia Wolf , Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York 1940.
“[T]he last lecture is going to be about the consequence of our ... Descartes'... disconnected determinism won't work. ...That's it. It's gone. Leibniz's won't work. It's gone.”
John Horton Conway (1937–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As regards my paintings of similar compositions I cannot give you any indication [about possible 'variants' in his works] because I'm afraid I've never made a note of where my paintings have ended up.. .I am always at work and work is my sole passion. And unfortunately I've become aware that I must always start from the beginning, and ought to burn what I've done in the past.”
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in his letter of 2 Aug. 1954; as cited in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 42
“We should try to return to our youth, to work naively; this is what I see, and it is why I have such success, because our century has tried to return to the primitive. I work as if no art had ever been made, before me, as if I had never learned anything. I am the first man to do sculpture.”
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands.”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]any facts.. lately transpired... tend to overthrow the hypothesis that heat is... a body, and to prove that it consists in a motion of the... particles of bodies. If... so... principles of mechanics may be applied to heat; this motion may be converted into work, the loss of ... being proportional to... work produced.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he new theory is opposed, not to the real fundamental principle of Carnot, but to the addition "no heat is lost;" for it is... possible that in the production of work... a certain portion of heat may be consumed, and a further portion transmitted from a warm body to a cold one; and both portions may stand in a certain definite relation to the quantity of work produced.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The s... may be divided into two classes: those which the atoms of a body exert upon each other... which depend... upon the nature of the body, and those which arise from the foreign influences to which the body may be exposed. According to these two classes of forces... I have divided the work done by heat into interior and exterior work.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he equivalence-value of the transformation of work into the quantity of heat Q, of the temperature t, may be represented... wherein f(t) is...[the same] function of the temperature... for all cases. When Q is negative... it will indicate that the quantity... transformed... from heat into work.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If to the last expression we give the form...the passage of the quantity of heat Q, from the temperature t1 to the temperature t2, has the same equivalence value as... the transformation of the quantity Q from heat at the temperature t1 into work, and from work into heat at the temperature t2.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.”
Jack Kirby (1917–1994) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'I've Never Done Anything Halfheartedly'". The Comics Journal. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books (134). February 1990. Reprinted in George, Milo, ed. (2002). The Comics Journal Library, Volume One: Jack Kirby. Se…
“My work allows me to exorcise my ghosts. I purge the pain from it. The words are my tears on the page. Perhaps I'd be less serene without it. I tend to be melancholy. The work helps me to put that on the page.”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2009 interview included in Conversations with Edwidge Danticat edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2017)
“I hope that we some day will have a big budget and a lot of time in which to do our work. It is my dream to have an American staff and a Japanese staff work together to create a Godzilla film.”
Kenpachiro Satsuma (1947–2023) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview I", Kaiju Conversations (December 1993)
“Shortly after I was offered the role, I realized that although it would be possible to replace all of the members of the staff and all of the other actors, it would not be possible to replace me. I also realized that if I didn't go into work because I was sick, none of the members of the special effects staff would be able to do their work. All of this gave me a tremendous sense of pride.”
Haruo Nakajima (1929–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In their enmity to the truth, they set up another religion, an idol-worship, wherein the creature, with its works and its fleshly righteousness, has something to boast of. This they do in order to render vain the work of Christ, and to destroy the work of the Spirit. They do it also that they may have a wide mantle under which to cloak their crimes.”
Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge (1803–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really find listening to and reading the work of lyricists and songwriters as essential to my work as reading poetry itself. It is all poetry.”
Robbie Coburn (born 1994) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in 2014, Overland literary journal
“I am a firm upholder of and a strong believer in the merits of the straight print, not that I disapprove of hand work, but because I believe that hand work carried too far will tend to destroy the very quality that makes photography worth of being considered a fine art.”
Arthur Hammond (1880–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A Jew] should make Torah his principal occupation and his work his casual one. He should minimize his business pursuits and occupy himself with Torah. And he should remove fleeting pleasures from his heart, and work each day enough to maintain himself. ... The rest of the day and night, he should occupy himself with Torah.”
Moses Isserles (1520–1572) said by 1572 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is better to struggle at work you really enjoy than to succeed in work you find boring and which fails to excite you.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mentoring is a combination of skills and you would find your own mentoring style as a result of your work experience, personality and work environment...Mentoring is more of an intention and mindset as opposed to a specific set of skills or processes and it is never too late to start mentoring and helping others.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want work, I want work with honesty; corruption should be stopped, corruption shouldn't take place in any way.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Differences are settled by talk. You don’t threaten with guns. You don’t threaten with fists. You don’t burn. You don’t destroy. You talk. These actions of the students are the antithesis of democratic action. For me, the essential issue was that [Cape Town University] was in breach of my freedom of expression. I couldn’t leave my work there… to leave my work there would be to endorse that policy.”
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining why he removed his archive from the university's library after students burned artworks in February 2016, as quoted by Natalie Pertsovsky in Here is the list of art destroyed on UCT, GroundUp, 9 June 2017
“If you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.”
Michael E. Gerber (born 1936) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Gerber (1986), E, Myth, cited in: Manager's magazine, 1986. p. 57
“To establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their heart's content.”
Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Masaru Ibuka's mission statement for Sony, cited in: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004), Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning. p. 57
“There is little serious doubt that the work of both Marxist and non-Marxist Austrian theoreticians found its way into the arguments of the vociani, the syndicalists, and ultimately those of Mussolini himself. The work of such thinkers is intrinsic to an understanding of Fascism as a variant of Marxism.”
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fearing discovery of their “fraudulence,” they burden themselves with too much work to compensate for their lack of self-esteem and identity. Work/life balance is a meaningless concept to them.”
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was proud of my work with Yakov Isaevich, and he of me. Despite our good relationship, however, I kept my “other” mathematical life – my work with Fuchs and Feigin and all of that – secret from him as I did from most other people. It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”
Edward Frenkel (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The Integrated Model of Work Stress (ISR) model] is straightforward, easy to understand, and has guided much of the work stress research and theorizing in the past 25 years.”
Steve M. Jex first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Steve M. Jex and Terry Beehr (1991), "Emerging theoretical and methodological issues in the study of work-related stress." Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 9, p. 313
“Job performance is a deceptively simple term. At the most general level, it can be defined simply as “all of the behaviors employees engage in while at work.” Unfortunately, this is a rather imprecise definition because employees often engage in behaviors at work that have little or nothing to do with job-specific tasks.”
Steve M. Jex wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A manager is a leader who enables people to work most effectively together by performing primarily the work of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.”
Louis A. Allen (1917–2010) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Louis. A. Allen. Common Vocabulary of Professional Management. 3rd ed. 1968. p. 1; cited in: Bedeian]] (1986; 41)
“Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.”
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speculum Mentis (1924), p. 25
“We not only worked hard—but we had a lot of fun doing it. We never saw the dynamics of work and fun as incompatible. If you’re going to spend a large percentage of your waking hours at work, why not enjoy it?”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. xix.
“When people feel good about themselves, then they feel good about others. When people feel good about each other, they can work together as a team, and when people work as a team, they are able to accomplish exceedingly more than anyone could hope to expect.”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 53.
“Of course I see both the things. For an actor you don’t have as many years to work as others do. I cannot work from 18 – 50 years of age. No doubt now there are different genres that are giving equally importance to older woman. It’s like make hay when there’s sunshine. I don’t take up a show for money, I take it up for the concept and then I see if the money is good or not.”
Drashti Dhami (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”
Max Wertheimer (1880–1943) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Max Wertheimer (1924), cited in: Heinz L. Ansbacher (ed.), The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler. 1954, p. 11
“My dad was aware that some of his later films were less than Citizen Kane, but he always put his heart into his work and loved his fans. He told me that if even one person gets enjoyment of his work then he’s done his job. I wanted to personally thank you for the very nice way you remember him, if you ever met him you would know he was just a real sweet man.”
John Agar (1921–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John G. Agar III, A Conversation with John Agar III (June 2009)
“During my early years as an actor, Bond was never a desire, but when Cassie was playing in For Your Eyes Only, then, of course, it became a joke. I would do my own impersonations of James Bond. Just for fun. Just driving her home from work, or going out, or talking about her experience on it. But even so, it was not an ambition to play James Bond. I had my sights set on other aspects of the work.”
Pierce Brosnan (born 1953) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan. (November 1997)
“My family was all about education, and me being there was a combination of my parents instilling in my sister and I that this was the ticket to wherever you want to go in life—education. And that’s what I tell my children: You’ve got to work now, play later. You’ve got to get to the place where when you’re a senior in high school, you’ve got choices; you’ve got to put in the work.”
Courtney B. Vance (born 1960) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alumni Spotlight: Courtney B. Vance, The Harvard Crimson (October 18, 2016)