A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide 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
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater 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
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want… — Ray Charles 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
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco 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
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers 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
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or… — Marianne Faithfull 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
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there… — Christina Ricci 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey 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
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert Heinlein 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
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
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image