Best Great Art Thoughts
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
— John Ruskin
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
— John Ruskin
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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
— Steven Moffat
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Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.
— Susan Sontag
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Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Great art changes you.
— Wendy Beckett
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
— Clive Bell
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I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
— Armand Hammer
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The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes…
— Carl Jung
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I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince,…
— Jean Pigozzi
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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it,…
— Dana Spiotta
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Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the…
— Maurice Saatchi
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There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
— Robin Thicke
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As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
— Dwight Yoakam
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We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change…
— Wendy Beckett
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Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used…
— Criss Jami
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That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out…
— Steve Vai
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
— Michael Cunningham
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Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does…
— Upton Sinclair
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Great artists suffer for the people.
— Marvin Gaye
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
— George Benson
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once,…
— Caio Fonseca
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What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of…
— Diana Gabaldon
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