Great art Quotes · Page 8

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

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

— Rachel Stevens

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

— Ben Jonson

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

— H. L. Mencken

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.”

— Abhaidev

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an…

— Hannah More

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if…

— Brian Froud

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can…

— Miles Davis

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in…

— James Boswell

Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to…

— Cory Trepanier

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention…

— George Eliot

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands,…

— Jarod Kintz

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms…

— Cornel West

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at…

— John Lennon

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop…

— Tony Bennett

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided…

— Agnes de Mille

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this…

— Quentin Tarantino

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the…

— Leon Krier

I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there…

— Christina Ricci

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

— John French Sloan

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

— Lord Byron

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

— Donald Miller

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

— Brenda Ueland

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and…

— Cornel West

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

— Norbert Lynton

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

— Paula Scher

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

— Maurice Sendak

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music…

— Joel Plaskett

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing…

— Wade Guyton

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

— Lee Strasberg

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

— Noel Gallagher

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard