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
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here… — Chris Martin 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
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I… — Marc Jacobs 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
The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
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
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has… — Tobin Bell 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. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever… — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But… — Boris Johnson 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
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
It shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you just need to be great at what you do. If you're an artist,… — Ty Herndon Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot 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
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
