A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying? — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him. — George Benson 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
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
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
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed 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
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 never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
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
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 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
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
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
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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