“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.” — The Book of the Samurai Copy Share Image
'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art. — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist even in pain. Nothing in life is to be feared… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.” — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“It’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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