Best Great Art Wisdom
296 Great Art quotes by 247 unique authors
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I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and…
— Quentin Tarantino
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I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
— Noel Gallagher
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will…
— Lara St. John
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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
— Angela Kinsey
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You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out…
— John Lasseter
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Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much…
— Michael Cunningham
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Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can…
— Joan Bauer
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I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop.…
— Nickolas Ashford
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Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.
— Peter M. Brant
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I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A…
— Scott Lynch
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
— Maggie Nelson
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In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
— Robert Breault
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Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory…
— Robert Breault
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
— Andre Gide
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A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when…
— James Whistler
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A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen,…
— Albert Einstein
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That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even…
— Hannah More
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The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most…
— Paul Gauguin
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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
— Max Beerbohm
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
— Anne Lamott
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This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's…
— Anthony Burgess
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