Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound 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
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“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
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“What will make someone a linchpin is not a shortcut. It’s the understanding of which hard work is worth doing. The only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
There's just so many great artists out there, but I think growing up, J. Cole has been the guy that I've always… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured. — Bill Bailey 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 artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make. — Genesis P-Orridge 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