I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland 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
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
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
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
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken 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
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin 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
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you… — Jeff Ross 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
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
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
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier 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
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