Sentence examples for own a work from inspiring English sources

With my hands doing the work on their own, a work is finished before I know it.

I really wouldn't want to own a work of art, or anything else of beauty or value.

"Martin Puryear is one of the great artists of our time," he said, "and since we don't own a work of his, I thought this was a great opportunity to display one for a limited time".

Where once collectors had cravenly to sell themselves to dealers to prove their worth to own a work (a phenomenon Thornton has dubbed the "hard buy") and then decide in a matter of minutes to buy lest the next name on the waiting list win through, now they wield the power.

I absolutely love the idea that [my artworks] are out in the world on their own and I hope that they're being looked after and occasionally one of the things that's very strange about it, being an artist, is you find yourself someplace and you meet somebody and they say: "I own a work by you".

While it is necessary to own a working Matlab license, the toolbox can be used without any programing skills.

I hate the idea of owning a work of art.

"I want to establish a tradition of owning a work by the winner".

Literary history is rife with family quarrels over legacy – which are ultimately tussles over who owns a work of art.

"Nobody owns a work of art, not even the artist," she maintained, adding that "I write my thing and it belongs to the people".

The other model tells you that they wanted to enhance their stature by owning a work of one of the greatest Dutch masters, by owning a Vermeer.