Best Great Art Sayings

296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou… — William Shakespeare
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,… — Ken Wilber
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body… — Unknown Author
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be… — Jean-Georges Noverre
I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But… — Josephine Baker
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener — Arnold Schoenberg
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal, — Banksy
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their… — Julian Schnabel
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,… — Oscar Wilde
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who… — Tony Visconti
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful.… — Cecilia Bartoli
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind… — David Lee Roth
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. Â The need to produce a great work of art makes… — Julia Cameron
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… — Vincent Van Gogh
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it… — Clive Bell
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system… — Bruce Dickinson
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange… — Simon Schama
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the… — Robert Menzies
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do… — Diana Vreeland
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth.… — George Nakashima
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Great Art Quotes

247 authors contributed a total of 296 Great Art Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Great Art Sayings

More Ways to Read Great Art Quotes

Who Wrote These Great Art Quotes