883 private quotes tagged art

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle

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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” — Maya Angelou

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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” — Oscar Wilde

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“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“When art critics get together, they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.” — Danny Kaye

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“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!” — Victor Hugo

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“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.” — T. S. Eliot

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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” — Samuel Butler

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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — C. S. Lewis

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“In art the best is good enough.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” — Albert Einstein

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“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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