The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content. — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
“All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“We are fighting not just against our contemporaries for recognition, but against centuries of great art for an audience. Each new work… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible… — One9 Copy Share Image
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
