883 private quotes tagged art

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” — Edmund Burke

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“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.” — Ann Landers

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” — Erich Fromm

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“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.” — Karl Marx

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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” — Herman Melville

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“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” — Martin Luther

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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” — Woody Allen

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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” — William Blake

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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” — Anatole France

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“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” — Samuel Butler

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“Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.” — Paul Klee

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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” — Stephen Sondheim

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.” — David Hockney

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“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“My painting does not come from the easel.” — Jackson Pollock

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