Great Works Quotes

61 quotes by 50 authors

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving… — Albert Camus
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Julius Meier-Graefe
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a… — Samuel Johnson
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands… — Ernst Gombrich
God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be… — Jean Royer
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works… — Marcel Proust
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and… — Lawren Harris
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can… — Helen Keller
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you… — Joe Meno
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we… — Joseph Priestley
Thereâ€™s a real question as to what beauty is and why itâ€™s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us… — Roger Scruton
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and… — Azar Nafisi
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the… — Eugene Delacroix
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians… — Donal Henahan
Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone.… — Shakti Gawain
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written… — David Selbourne

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