Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality…

— John Edgar Wideman

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater

I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there are so…

— Christina Ricci

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

— John French Sloan

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the…

— George Nakashima

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

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

— Loren Eiseley

I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent the great…

— Daniel Cudmore

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

— Michael Cunningham

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just…

— Michael Jackson

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there,…

— Albert Camus