The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of…

— Boris Sidis

“artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many”

— Jen Sincero

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold a mirror…

— Clarence Major

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every…

— Janet Fitch

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

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

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

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

— Richard Linklater