Great artist Quotes · Page 3

A truly great artist has many talents.

— Rick Riordan

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

— Marina Abramovic

I want to be a great person, not just a great artist.

— Cody Simpson

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

— William Hogarth

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

— Arthur Cravan

Meek is a great artist and he's very focused.

— Trina

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

— Andre Simon

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

— George Benson

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— Harold Prince

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them,…

— Hayao Miyazaki

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding…

— Walter Kaufmann

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it…

— George Saunders

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of…

— Franz Marc

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his…

— Shanna Moakler

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention…

— George Eliot

I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot…

— Maluma

To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve…

— Bat for Lashes

If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of…

— Nicholas of Cusa

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of…

— Gloria Estefan

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for…

— Hilaire Belloc

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look…

— Simon de Pury

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms…

— Cornel West

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm…

— Frank Sinatra

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

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

— Black Thought

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

— Steven Van Zandt