If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
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 art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon 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
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the… — Arthur Wesley Dow Copy Share Image
All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall Copy Share Image
I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in… — Robbie Rist Copy Share Image
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
