883 private quotes tagged art

“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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“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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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Art is anything you can get away with.” — Marshall McLuhan

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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 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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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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 true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo

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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” — 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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola

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

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

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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 begins in imitation and ends in innovation.” — Mason Cooley

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“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.” — Will Rogers

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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu

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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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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” — Martin Luther

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