883 private quotes tagged art

“I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.” — Conrad Hall

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“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.” — Frank Wedekind

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“Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.” — Russell Simmons

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“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.” — Ani DiFranco

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“It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.” — Jack White

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“I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.” — Madeleine L'Engle

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“When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.” — Madeleine L'Engle

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“I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.” — Helena Bonham Carter

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“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.” — Billy Joel

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“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.” — Arthur Balfour

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“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.” — Alan Rickman

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“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.” — Thomas Edward Brown

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“Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.” — Joni Mitchell

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“There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.” — David Rockefeller

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“Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“I think good art does come from a dark place.” — Rick Springfield

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“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.” — Elia Kazan

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“I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.” — Danny Boyle

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“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.” — Robert Browning

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“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.” — Robert Browning

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“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.” — Tony Snow

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“I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.” — Shirley MacLaine

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