“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.” — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't… — Paula Wagner Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come,… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. — Raul Castillo Copy Share Image
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art. — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist even in pain. Nothing in life is to be feared… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
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