“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken 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
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk 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 first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some… — Steve Jobs 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
“The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Technically, I’m right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don’t think anyone can really quantify it—that I… — David Baldacci 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
“This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us… — Tristan Gooley Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
“The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry 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
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
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 think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I have a tiny little secret hope that, after a decent period of silence and prose, I will find myself in some… — John Berryman 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
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
