883 private quotes tagged art

“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.” — Edith Wharton

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“Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

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“I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.” — Damien Hirst

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“People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.” — David Hockney

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“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?” — Lou Reed

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“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?” — David Hockney

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“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.” — Leo Burnett

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“Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.” — Noam Chomsky

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“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.” — Garry Kasparov

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“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.” — David Byrne

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“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.” — Jackson Pollock

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“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.” — Henry Adams

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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” — Susan Sontag

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“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?” — David Foster Wallace

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“Art must take reality by surprise.” — Francoise Sagan

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“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.” — Charles de Lint

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“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.” — Yoko Ono

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“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.” — Pink

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“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.” — Marvin Hagler

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“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.” — Casey Stengel

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“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.” — Edward Koch

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“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.” — Edgar Degas

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