883 private quotes tagged art

“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.” — John Updike

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“Art is science made clear.” — Wilson Mizner

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“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.” — Mae West

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“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.” — E. M. Forster

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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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“An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

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“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.” — Stendhal

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“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” — E. M. Forster

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“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” — Edward Steichen

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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” — Alfred de Vigny

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“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.” — Jim Morrison

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“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” — Herbie Hancock

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“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” — Amy Lowell

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“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.” — Robert Indiana

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” — Lionel Trilling

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“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.” — Robert Indiana

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“Rules and models destroy genius and art.” — William Hazlitt

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“When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.” — Jim Hodges

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“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.” — Ellen Key

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