The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require… — Andrew Loog Oldham Copy Share Image
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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