883 private quotes tagged art

“Land really is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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

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“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.” — William Hazlitt

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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.” — Megan Fox

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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.” — Henry James

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

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“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.” — E. M. Forster

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“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.” — Richard Roeper

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“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.” — Steve Martin

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“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.” — Lenny Bruce

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“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.” — Andre Maurois

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

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“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.” — Jonathan Swift

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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” — Will Durant

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“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” — Thomas Wolfe

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange

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“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.” — Steve Martin

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” — Robert Rauschenberg

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“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.” — Dante Alighieri

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“I'm not interested in pop art.” — Billy Corgan

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