883 private quotes tagged art

“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” — Robert Redford

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“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.” — Jim Davis

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“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.” — Max Beerbohm

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“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.” — Bruno Bettelheim

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“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.” — Otto Dix

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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” — Maria Callas

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“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” — Henry Hazlitt

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“Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.” — David Hockney

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“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.” — David Rockefeller

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“Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.” — Brad Holland

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“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.” — Boris Pasternak

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“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.” — Jean Anouilh

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“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.” — Nick Cave

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“The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.” — Keanu Reeves

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“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.” — Pablo Casals

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“Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.” — John Updike

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“Translation is the art of failure.” — Umberto Eco

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“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.” — Judy Chicago

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.” — David Hockney

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“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.” — W. H. Auden

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