883 private quotes tagged art

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.” — Robert Frost

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“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.” — Confucius

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“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.” — Dave Barry

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“Art is born of humiliation.” — W. H. Auden

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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” — Samuel Butler

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“Art raises its head where creeds relax.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams

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“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.” — Isadora Duncan

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“All nature is but art unknown to thee.” — Alexander Pope

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“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” — Albert Camus

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“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.” — Rebecca West

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“Art is not a thing it is a way.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” — Aristotle

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“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.” — Elbert Hubbard

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