Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art… — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. — Angela Kinsey Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. — Steven Van Zandt 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
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
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
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
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese 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 love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette 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 am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin 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
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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