The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine 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
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require… — Andrew Loog Oldham Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there… — Christina Ricci 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
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that,… — King Tuff 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
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
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
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am… — John Ford Copy Share Image
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
“Great artists come and go; they are born and they die; but there is one exception who has been living for thousands… — Mehmet Murat ildan 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 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
“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
“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
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
“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 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
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
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
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
