883 private quotes tagged art

“What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.” — Kesha

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“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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