883 private quotes tagged art

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”— Thomas Browne

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”— Harvey Fierstein

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”— Stella Adler

“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”— Honore de Balzac

“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”— Edward Hopper

“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.”— Akhenaton

“Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'”— Jef I. Richards

“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.”— Marilyn Manson

“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”— Henry A. Kissinger

“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”— Chinua Achebe

“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.”— Henry Miller

“Where thou art, that is home.”— Emily Dickinson

“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”— Margot Fonteyn

“Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.”— George Jean Nathan

“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”— John Ruskin

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”— Virginia Woolf

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”— Christopher Marlowe

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”— Jean-Michel Basquiat

“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”— George Jean Nathan

“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”— John Kenneth Galbraith

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”— Elliott Erwitt

“Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'”— Marilyn Manson

“What is art? Nature concentrated.”— Honore de Balzac

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Space is the breath of art.”— Frank Lloyd Wright