883 private quotes tagged art

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” — Theodor Adorno

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“Wherever art appears, life disappears.” — Robert Motherwell

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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” — John Berger

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“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” — Quintilian

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“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.” — Tadao Ando

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“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.” — Theodore Bikel

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.” — Auguste Rodin

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“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.” — Edward Steichen

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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” — Paul Gauguin

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“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.” — Theodor Adorno

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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

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“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” — Jerzy Kosinski

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“My painting does not come from the easel.” — Jackson Pollock

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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.” — David Hockney

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“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” — Stephen Sondheim

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” — Henri Matisse

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“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.” — Andre Malraux

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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” — Theodore Dreiser

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“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” — Jerzy Kosinski

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“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.” — Robert Smithson

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