Best Great Art Lines
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays…
— Albert Camus
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Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
— Donald Miller
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie…
— Zac Posen
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See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he…
— Miles Davis
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
— James Huneker
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The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great…
— Johnny Winter
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Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
— Bill Barich
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
— Pablo Picasso
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We do not judge great art. It judges us.
— Caroline Gordon
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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Great artists need great clients.
— I. M. Pei
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By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs…
— Rick Steves
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Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping,…
— Ken Wilber
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore…
— J. W. N. Sullivan
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long…
— Wayne Swan
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Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live…
— Chuck Jones
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It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they…
— Rodney Crowell
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
— Rachel Stevens
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Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
— Richard Blanco
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious,…
— Loren Eiseley
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