883 private quotes tagged art

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” — Samuel Butler

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“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” — Walt Whitman

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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” — Albert Camus

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“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo

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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Art raises its head where creeds relax.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola

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“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams

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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Art is anything you can get away with.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.” — Will Rogers

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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” — Aristotle

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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” — Martin Luther

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