“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.” — The Book of the Samurai Copy Share Image
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require… — Andrew Loog Oldham Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
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