“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.” — The Book of the Samurai Copy Share Image
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille 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 attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
