I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan 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
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
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
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
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
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road.… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image