I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant 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
'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
“The errors of God, like those of great artists, or of true lovers, bring forth so many joyful rewards, that at times… — Paulo Coelho 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
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever. — Luke James Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken 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
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
“An individual's torments only have meaning within his or her personal experience. Faced with the collective we are as naked and helpless… — Aldo Carotenuto Copy Share Image
“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,… — Edward Chase Copy Share Image
“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was… — St. Lucia 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
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished,… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
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 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
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