... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the… — Josephine Baker 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
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
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
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
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
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
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare 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
