883 private quotes tagged art

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.” — Jean Cocteau

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“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.” — Henry Miller

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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” — Al Capp

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“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.” — Salvador Dali

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“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” — Paul Cezanne

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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” — George Edward Moore

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“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.” — Carl Rogers

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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange

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“Rules and models destroy genius and art.” — William Hazlitt

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” — Lionel Trilling

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“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” — E. M. Forster

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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.” — E. M. Forster

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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.” — John Updike

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“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” — Robert Schumann

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“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” — Henry Moore

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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” — Havelock Ellis

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“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” — Henri Matisse

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“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.” — Federico Fellini

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“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” — Roy Lichtenstein

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