There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker Copy Share Image
If they're 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
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings. — Nadeem Aslam 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
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you… — Nile Rodgers 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
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie 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
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
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
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