Great Artists Quotes

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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
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
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
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon
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
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette
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
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
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
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal, — Banksy
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who… — Tony Visconti
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind… — David Lee Roth
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… — Vincent Van Gogh
In my naÃ¯vety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system… — Bruce Dickinson
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the… — Andre Simon
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has… — Romare Bearden
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound

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