883 private quotes tagged art

“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.” — Lenny Bruce

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“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.” — Andre Maurois

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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” — Will Durant

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“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.” — Lester Bangs

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“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.” — Steve Martin

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“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.” — Stendhal

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“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.” — Dante Alighieri

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“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.” — Walter Winchell

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“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.” — Carmen Electra

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“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.” — Rita Mae Brown

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“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.” — Anton Chekhov

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“The art of creation is older than the art of killing.” — Edward Koch

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“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden

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“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.” — Eric Hoffer

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“You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.” — Jean Cocteau

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“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.” — Tony Hawk

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“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.” — George Santayana

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“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.” — Thomas Huxley

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“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” — Ernst Fischer

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“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” — John Donne

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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” — Glenn Hughes

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.” — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.” — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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“The work of art is a scream of freedom.” — Christo

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