Great Artists Quotes · Page 3

Some people have their problems with the Grammys, and it doesn't recognize so many great artists.

— Tucker Halpern

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

“Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.”

— Scott Miller

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

— Nadeem Aslam

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

— MO

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

— Kathleen Hanna

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed…

— Elaine Stritch

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like…

— Larry Gagosian

The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all…

— Johnny Winter

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has…

— Tobin Bell

“The errors of God, like those of great artists, or of true lovers, bring forth so many joyful rewards, that at times…

— Paulo Coelho

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

I have worked with a lot of great artists, including some of my heroes like Michael Golden, George Perez, and Jose Garcia…

— Gail Simone

“You say great artists sell their souls for their art?" "Maybe," she ventured. "That's true, I suppose. If you're doing it right,…

— Sam Starbuck

I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook…

— Philip Rosenthal

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of…

— Christopher Jackson

“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human…

— Steven Pinker

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

The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she…

— Heather Headley

“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert…

— Ezra Pound

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

“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that…

— Walter Isaacson

“I have a tiny little secret hope that, after a decent period of silence and prose, I will find myself in some…

— John Berryman

“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure…

— Anonymous

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“An individual's torments only have meaning within his or her personal experience. Faced with the collective we are as naked and helpless…

— Aldo Carotenuto

“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,…

— Edward Chase

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

— Bill Bailey

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

— Michael Cunningham

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

— Kenneth Edmonds

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

— Theophile Gautier

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

— Peter M. Brant

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

— Genesis P-Orridge