Best Great Art Words
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have…
— Paula Wagner
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Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you,…
— Austin Kleon
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I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this…
— Jon Foreman
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.
— Steven Van Zandt
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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 be a great…
— Martha Stewart
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Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
— Arthur Cravan
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Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos
— Alice Randall
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It is a great art to saunter !
— Henry David Thoreau
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
— Calvin Miller
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and…
— Horace
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Great art can only be created out of love.
— James A. Baldwin
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is…
— John Milton
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To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of…
— John Ford
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
— John Ruskin
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What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah),…
— Nile Rodgers
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He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're…
— Michael Apted
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There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting…
— Graham Coxon
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The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of…
— Napoleon Hill
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Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of…
— Chuck Close
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
— Donald Miller
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I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds…
— Tilda Swinton
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
— Seth Godin
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Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
— Lee Strasberg
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