Great art Quotes · Page 6

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

— Edward Abbey

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

— Arnold Schoenberg

“If there is no feeling, there cannot be great art.”

— Ray Bradbury

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

— Glenn Close

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great art can only be created out of love.

— James A. Baldwin

“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.”

— Scott Sigler

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

— Don DeLillo

The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.

— Chris Thile

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am…

— John Ford

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

— Henri Matisse

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

— Richard Blanco

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

— George Jean Nathan

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

— Robert Breault

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…

— Karl Pearson

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances…

— Anais Nin

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't…

— Cecil Taylor

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain…

— Samuel Johnson

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art…

— Gary Giddins

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David…

— Robert Breault

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your…

— Wendy Beckett

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was…

— Harvey Pekar

“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

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

I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my…

— Adam Ross

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

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood…

— Bob Dylan

All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of…

— Rajneesh

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn…

— Chuck Jones

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to…

— Cyril Connolly

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

— Anonymous

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

— T. S. Eliot

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

— Sara Blecher

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

— Richard Schmid

My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen…

— David Olusoga