Great Artist Quotes
155 Great Artist quotes by 137 unique authors
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to…
— Leonard Bernstein
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
— Willa Cather
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
— Maya Angelou
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
— Karl Pearson
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The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there were only three…
— Rajneesh
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All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness…
— Rajneesh
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.
— Paul Gauguin
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
— Andre Simon
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
— Peter O'Toole
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Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and…
— Kanye West
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I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
— Rosanna Arquette
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My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.
— Unknown Author
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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
— Marina Abramovic
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In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means…
— Cecil Taylor
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
— Oscar Wilde
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If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
— John F. Kennedy
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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
— Vikas Swarup
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -…
— H. L. Mencken
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One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body…
— Unknown Author
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But…
— Josephine Baker
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