Great artist Quotes

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

— Victor Hugo

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

— Franz Liszt

A truly great artist has many talents.

— Rick Riordan

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

— Marina Abramovic

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

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

— Black Thought

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— John Steinbeck

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Edgar Degas

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

— Vikas Swarup

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

Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they…

— Hiromi

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you…

— Lady Gaga

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

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here…

— Chris Martin

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to…

— Michael Jackson

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

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

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

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

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot…

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Marcel Proust

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that…

— Loren Eiseley

Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter…

— Yasuhiko Kimura

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

— Steve Jobs

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not…

— Austin Kleon

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are…

— Germaine Greer

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided…

— Agnes de Mille

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see…

— Robert Heinlein