[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall Copy Share Image
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having… — Bill Plympton 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 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
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here… — Chris Martin 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
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
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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
So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value… — Kim Yuna Copy Share Image
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
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