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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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