883 private quotes tagged art

“Art seduces, but does not exploit.” — Mason Cooley

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“All good art is an indiscretion.” — Tennessee Williams

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“I paint with shapes.” — Alexander Calder

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“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C. S. Lewis

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“All art is but imitation of nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.” — Ludwig Erhard

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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.” — David Ogilvy

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“Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville

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“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” — André Gide

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“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” — Robert Motherwell

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“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.” — Voltaire

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.” — Mason Cooley

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“My trade and art is to live.” — Michel de Montaigne

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