883 private quotes tagged art

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” — Aristotle

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“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” — Francis Bacon

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

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“Every good painter paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock

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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” — Ansel Adams

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“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Art is an attempt to integrate evil.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Art is the signature of civilizations.” — Beverly Sills

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“Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” — Dale Carnegie

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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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