It was funny how heartbreak turned into great art.

“I want to throw a party for the heartbreak that turned you into a poet.”

— Mindy Nettifee

His head was turned by too great success.

— Seneca the Younger

They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section…

— Aaron Judge

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 feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard…

— Jean Pigozzi

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

They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art.…

— Robin Leach

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

— Richard Linklater

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most…

— James Boswell

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense…

— Wendy Beckett

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and…

— Noel Gallagher