Great artist Quotes · Page 3

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I want to be a great person, not just a great artist.

— Cody Simpson

Meek is a great artist and he's very focused.

— Trina

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

— Arthur Cravan

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

— Tim Burton

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

— Andre Gide

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

— Steven Van Zandt

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

— Black Thought

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have…

— Elizabeth Taylor

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in…

— Nile Rodgers

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

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or…

— Marianne Faithfull

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I…

— Jean-Luc Bilodeau

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

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

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

I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living…

— Jon Bernthal

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

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

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop…

— Tony Bennett

When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel?…

— Fred Kaplan

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I…

— Jackie Coogan

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess…

— Marcel Proust

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— Harold Prince

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

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

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

— Brendon Urie

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

— Dwight Yoakam

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken