[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” — Jan Pinkava Ratatouille Copy Share Image
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. — Jeffrey Lewis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel?… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd 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
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
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
Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh 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
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn… — Chuck Jones 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
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image