883 private quotes tagged art

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” — Salvador Dali

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“My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” — Paul Getty

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“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.” — Theodore Bikel

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“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.” — Tadao Ando

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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” — Isaac Newton

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“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” — Quintilian

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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” — John Berger

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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin

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“Wherever art appears, life disappears.” — Robert Motherwell

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” — Theodor Adorno

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“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” — Roy Lichtenstein

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“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.” — Federico Fellini

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“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.” — Charlie Sheen

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“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” — Henri Matisse

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“A picture is a poem without words.” — Horace

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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” — Octavia Butler

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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” — Havelock Ellis

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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anais Nin

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