883 private quotes tagged art

“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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“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” — Ansel Adams

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“Art is not a thing it is a way.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“Every good painter paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock

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“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” — Aristotle

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“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.” — Mason Cooley

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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 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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“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.” — Michelangelo

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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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“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 is the signature of civilizations.” — Beverly Sills

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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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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” — Dale Carnegie

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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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“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

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