It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable… — Arthur Lismer Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel 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
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. — Sara Blecher Copy Share Image
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
