883 private quotes tagged art

“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.” — Anton Chekhov

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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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“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden

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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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“You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.” — Tony Hawk

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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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“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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“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” — John Donne

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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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“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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“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” — John Keats

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

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“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” — Frederic Chopin

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

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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” — Charles de Lint

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.” — David Hockney

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

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