It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson Copy Share Image
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the… — Arthur Wesley Dow Copy Share Image
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
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