883 private quotes tagged art

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

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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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” — André Gide

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

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

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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

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“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” — Ansel Adams

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“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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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 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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“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” — Marc Chagall

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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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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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