883 private quotes tagged art

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

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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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“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.” — Charles Bukowski

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

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“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.” — Mason Cooley

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“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.” — Alexander Pope

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“Art is the daughter of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.” — William Blake

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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.” — André Gide

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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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“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” — Franz Liszt

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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” — William Blake

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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” — Edmund Burke

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“Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.” — Ansel Adams

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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” — Anatole France

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” — Erich Fromm

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