883 private quotes tagged art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“All good art is an indiscretion.” — Tennessee Williams

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

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

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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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“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 think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.” — David Ogilvy

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