Best Great Artists Sayings

84 Great Artists quotes by 78 unique authors

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try… — Steve Jobs
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of… — Yasuhiko Kimura
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. — Ursula K. Le Guin
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives,… — Joyce Carol Oates
Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from. — Harold Prince
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair,… — Nile Rodgers
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great… — John Steinbeck
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. — Igor Stravinsky
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry… — Eddie Vedder
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing… — David Foster Wallace
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian… — John Berryman
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great… — Viktor E. Frankl
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find… — Martha Beck
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings. — Nadeem Aslam

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