I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art. — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup 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
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel 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
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image