Great Artists Quotes
84 quotes by 78 authors
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,
— Banksy
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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
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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
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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
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In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system…
— Bruce Dickinson
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Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
— Richard Thompson
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
— Douglas Sirk
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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
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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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
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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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