883 private quotes tagged art

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Pablo Picasso

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“A picture is worth a thousand words.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

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“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“All art is but imitation of nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.” — John Wooden

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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C. S. Lewis

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“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.” — André Gide

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” — Herman Melville

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” — André Gide

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It's clever, but is it Art?” — Rudyard Kipling

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“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.” — Ludwig Erhard

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” — George Bernard Shaw

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