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
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in… — James Boswell 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
“I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Good art is becoming hard to find these days. With political correctness, the internet, globalization, and multiculturalism, people are becoming pressured to… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen… — David Olusoga 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
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. — Josh Billings 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
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. — Jason McCoy 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
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda 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
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
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
I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do. — Kano 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 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
