883 private quotes tagged art

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.” — Harold Coffin

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“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anais Nin

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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” — Octavia Butler

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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.” — Charlie Sheen

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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” — Isaac Newton

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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” — William Hazlitt

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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” — Paul Hawken

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“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.” — Marilyn Manson

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“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.” — Paul Klee

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“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” — Andy Warhol

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“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” — Marcel Proust

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“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.” — Emmet Fox

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