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
I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was… — St. Lucia 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
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever. — Luke James 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
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished,… — Carmen Ejogo 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 influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel 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
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
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
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
“My mother died at eighty-three, of cancer, in pain, her spleen enlarged so that her body was misshapen. Is that the person… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and… — John Updike 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
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
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I think it is so great when artists use their voice to help other people and it is really great to be… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
