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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“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” — Plato

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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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“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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“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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“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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“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” — Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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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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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” — André Gide

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

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

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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso

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