Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust 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
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — 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
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson Copy Share Image
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm… — Frank Sinatra 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
Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in… — Kenneth Noland Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David… — Robert Breault 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
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not… — Mike Tyson 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
Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great… — Asher Monroe Copy Share Image
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill 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
“Picasso has magical eyes. He sees the world so differently than we do, but he is able to make us understand what… — Robert Sharenow Copy Share Image
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image