883 private quotes tagged art

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

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

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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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“My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” — Paul Getty

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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” — Igor Stravinsky

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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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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” — Isaac Newton

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

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“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” — Quintilian

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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” — John Berger

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“Wherever art appears, life disappears.” — Robert Motherwell

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin

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“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” — Roy Lichtenstein

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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.” — Charlie Sheen

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“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.” — Federico Fellini

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“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” — Henri Matisse

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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” — Octavia Butler

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