883 private quotes tagged art

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

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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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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“I paint with shapes.” — Alexander Calder

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“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.” — Voltaire

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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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“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” — Malcolm Forbes

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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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