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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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 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
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
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming 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
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 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
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.” quote by Cecil Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/cecil-taylor-20434_art_in-short-coltrane-s-tone-is-beautiful-be_358656.jpg)
![“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]” quote by Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a67/robert-hughes-9113_art_the-greater-the-artist-the-greater-the-d_3122098.jpg)
![“[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.” quote by Anthony Minghella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/anthony-minghella-18510_abba_abbas-kiarostami-is-a-great-artist-and-a_2108084.png)
