Best Great Art Quotations
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
— Richard Thompson
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If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include…
— Harmony Korine
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
— Douglas Sirk
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the…
— Andre Simon
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In…
— Henry Moore
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
— Martin Filler
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In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
— Robert Henri
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,…
— Diego Rivera
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An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist…
— Diego Rivera
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Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has…
— Romare Bearden
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
— Sol Hurok
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The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may…
— Joseph Addison
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
— Edith Hamilton
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
— Ezra Pound
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Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path…
— Harvey Weinstein
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
— William Hazlitt
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
— Audrey Flack
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
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All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
— Eric Hoffer
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
— Loren Eiseley
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are…
— Bart Yates
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