A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
“There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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 truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value… — Kim Yuna Copy Share Image
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley 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
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