Great Artists Quotes

Great artists have no country.

— Alfred de Musset

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

— Igor Stravinsky

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

“Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal"-Picassco”

— Walter Isaacson

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

Great artists need great clients.

— I. M. Pei

Some people have their problems with the Grammys, and it doesn't recognize so many great artists.

— Tucker Halpern

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— Harold Prince

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

— Jimmy Iovine

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…

— Margot Fonteyn

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was…

— St. Lucia

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

— Hiromi

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

— Luke James

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

— Chris Martin

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

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished,…

— Carmen Ejogo

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they…

— Rodney Crowell

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

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

“You say great artists sell their souls for their art?" "Maybe," she ventured. "That's true, I suppose. If you're doing it right,…

— Sam Starbuck

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of…

— Christopher Jackson

I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook…

— Philip Rosenthal

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music,…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Yasuhiko Kimura

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

— Steve Jobs

“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one…

— John Steinbeck

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

“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.…

— Philip Pullman