883 private quotes tagged art

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

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

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.” — Mason Cooley

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