You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of… — Robert Hughes 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
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
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
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
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that… — Kanye West 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump,… — Jeremy Abbott Copy Share Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
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