Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary… — James Toback Copy Share Image
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
“We are fighting not just against our contemporaries for recognition, but against centuries of great art for an audience. Each new work… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image