I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying? — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image