I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't… — Paula Wagner Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that,… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal,… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I… — Damien Hirst 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
“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
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
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury 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
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've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image