883 private quotes tagged art

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.” — Norman McLaren

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“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.” — Jean Cocteau

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“I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.” — Willie Nelson

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“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” — Franklin P. Jones

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“I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.” — Tori Amos

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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.” — Edward Tufte

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“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.” — Arthur Koestler

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“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.” — Austin O'Malley

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“I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.” — W. H. Auden

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“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.” — Max Beckmann

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“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.” — Ad Reinhardt

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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” — Walter Pater

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“Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.” — Paula Abdul

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“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.” — Norah Jones

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“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.” — Albrecht Durer

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“The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.” — Havelock Ellis

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“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.” — Tyra Banks

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“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” — Rene Magritte

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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.” — Camillo di Cavour

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“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.” — John Donne

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“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.” — Hans Hofmann

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