883 private quotes tagged art

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” — Albert Camus

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“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Art seduces, but does not exploit.” — Mason Cooley

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

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“I paint with shapes.” — Alexander Calder

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“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.” — Friedrich Schiller

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — 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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“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” — Robert Motherwell

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

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“Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville

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“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Art at its most significant is 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 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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“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 art is but imitation of nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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