Best Fine Arts Quotations
109 Fine Arts quotes by 101 unique authors
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I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
— Paul Getty
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Fine art is knowledge made visible.
— Gustave Courbet
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I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a…
— Maya Lin
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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
— Joni Mitchell
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When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
— Mike Myers
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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,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
— John Ruskin
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When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the…
— Jane Smiley
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
— Herbert Spencer
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When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the…
— Edward Steichen
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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the…
— James Wolcott
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible,…
— John Wooden
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better…
— Miriam Toews
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What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he…
— Diana Gabaldon
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
— Christopher McDougall
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you…
— Vita Sackville-West
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It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
— August Bournonville
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I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's…
— Florence Nightingale
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