Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
![“In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.” quote by Cecil Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/cecil-taylor-20434_art_in-short-coltrane-s-tone-is-beautiful-be_358656.jpg)
![“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first…” quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b3/ralph-vaughan-williams-24520_artistic_there-is-a-feeling-of-recognition-as-of_1532348.jpg)
![“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]” quote by Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a67/robert-hughes-9113_art_the-greater-the-artist-the-greater-the-d_3122098.jpg)
