883 private quotes tagged art

“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.” — Henry Rollins

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“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.” — Sylvia Plath

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“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.” — Og Mandino

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“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin

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“There is nothing new in art except talent.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.” — William Hazlitt

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“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.” — Salvador Dali

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“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan

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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” — Walter Hagen

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“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.” — Steve Prefontaine

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“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” — Tony Blair

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“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.” — Denis Waitley

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“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.” — John Ruskin

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“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.” — Isaac Newton

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“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.” — Saint Augustine

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“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.” — Sri Chinmoy

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“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.” — Horace

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