Walt Whitman Quotes, Art Quotes, Expression Quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

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Tags : A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Art Quotes

To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Art Quotes , Order Quotes

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

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Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Art Quotes , People Quotes

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

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I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Art Quotes , Trying Quotes