883 private quotes tagged art

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.” — Alvar Aalto

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“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.” — Joseph Beuys

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“Nature is the art of God.” — Dante Alighieri

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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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“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.” — Paul Cezanne

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“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.” — Paul Cezanne

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“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” — Honore de Balzac

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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” — George Santayana

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“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.” — Henry Miller

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“I'm not interested in pop art.” — Billy Corgan

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“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.” — Stendhal

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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” — Gertrude Stein

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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” — Paul Valery

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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” — Robert Rauschenberg

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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” — Herbie Hancock

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

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“Art is science made clear.” — Wilson Mizner

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“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin

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“My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” — Paul Getty

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson

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