883 private quotes tagged art

“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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“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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“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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“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 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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“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” — Aristotle

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“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” — John Lennon

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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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“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.” — Pablo Picasso

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“All art is quite useless.” — 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 man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” — Michelangelo

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“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates

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“Pictures must not be too picturesque.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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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