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
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am… — John Ford Copy Share Image
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of… — Rajneesh 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
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's… — Twyla Tharp 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 am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
