Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts… — Ryan Kavanaugh 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
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in… — Robbie Rist Copy Share Image
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall Copy Share Image
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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
I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
