883 private quotes tagged art

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anais Nin

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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” — Havelock Ellis

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“A picture is a poem without words.” — Horace

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“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” — Henry Moore

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“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.” — Harold Coffin

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“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” — Robert Schumann

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

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

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

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

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“Art is science made clear.” — Wilson Mizner

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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.” — Paul Cezanne

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

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

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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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