Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' — Wendell Pierce 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
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
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the… — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.” — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist even in pain. Nothing in life is to be feared… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art. — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. — Raul Castillo Copy Share Image
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
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