Best Great Art Qoutes
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
— Noel Gallagher
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual…
— Damien Hirst
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the…
— Edward Hopper
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes
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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want…
— Elton John
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
— Samuel Johnson
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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
— Pauline Kael
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion…
— Franz Liszt
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
— Marshall McLuhan
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
— Herman Melville
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
— George Jean Nathan
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not…
— Yoko Ono
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
— Paracelsus
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
— Ezra Pound
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great…
— Sylvester Stallone
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
— Rebecca West
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The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
— Don Roff
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Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to…
— Ann Patchett
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
— John Irving
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When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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