883 private quotes tagged art

“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.” — Paul Cezanne

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“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” — Henry Moore

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” — Robert Rauschenberg

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“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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“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.” — Steve Martin

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

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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 sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.” — 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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“Patience is the art of hoping.” — Luc de Clapiers

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“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.” — George Santayana

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“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.” — Simone Weil

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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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“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.” — Robert Indiana

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“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” — John Ruskin

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