[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art… — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that,… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal,… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't… — Paula Wagner 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
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. — Angela Kinsey Copy Share Image
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. — Steven Van Zandt 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
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
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