883 private quotes tagged art

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.” — Rebecca West

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

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

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

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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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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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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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“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.” — Michelangelo

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

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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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