883 private quotes tagged art

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“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”— Benjamin Franklin
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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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“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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“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”— Will Rogers
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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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“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”— Ansel Adams
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“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”— Aristotle
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“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”— Francis Bacon
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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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“Every good painter paints what he is.”— Jackson Pollock
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”— Aldous Huxley
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“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”— Mason Cooley
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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”— Isadora Duncan
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“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”— Marshall McLuhan
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“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”— Ansel Adams
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“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”— Gustave Flaubert
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“Art is the signature of civilizations.”— Beverly Sills
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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”— Jeanette Winterson
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”— Georgia O'Keeffe
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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”— Dale Carnegie
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“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”— Marc Chagall