883 private quotes tagged art

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” — Jerzy Kosinski

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“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson

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“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” — Paul Hawken

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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.” — Theodor Adorno

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“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” — Paul Gauguin

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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” — William Hazlitt

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“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.” — Edward Steichen

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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” — Jonathan Swift

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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.” — Auguste Rodin

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.” — Theodore Bikel

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“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.” — Tadao Ando

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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” — Salvador Dali

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