883 private quotes tagged art

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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

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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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“My trade and art is to live.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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

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

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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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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” — Alexander Pope

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