883 private quotes tagged art

“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.” — Steve Martin

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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” — Hippocrates

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“What is art? Prostitution.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas

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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.” — Megan Fox

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“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.” — Theodor Adorno

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“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.” — Denis Diderot

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“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.” — Henry James

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“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” — Edward Hopper

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“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.” — E. M. Forster

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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” — Henry James

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“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.” — Steve Martin

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“When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.” — Jim Hodges

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” — Lionel Trilling

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“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” — Herbie Hancock

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“Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.” — Valentino Rossi

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“I'm not interested in pop art.” — Billy Corgan

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“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.” — Jim Henson

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“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.” — Jonathan Swift

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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.” — Ellen Key

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