883 private quotes tagged art

“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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“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad

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“The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.” — Robert Morgan

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“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” — Malcolm De Chazal

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“I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.” — Brad Renfro

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“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.” — Robert Morgan

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“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.” — Ben Okri

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“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.” — Vidal Sassoon

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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.” — Karl Kraus

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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.” — James Wolcott

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“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” — Franz Marc

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“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.” — Jet Li

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“Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.” — Billy Idol

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“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.” — Jane Campion

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“I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.” — Jane Campion

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“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” — James Humes

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“My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.” — Robert Carlyle

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“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.” — Louise Brooks

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“In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.” — Theodore Bikel

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“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.” — Danica McKellar

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