“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.” — The Book of the Samurai Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content. — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that,… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very… — Colin Wilson 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
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
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
