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A great artist has a unique vision ... obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.
— Jerry Saltz
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
— Mamie Gummer
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
— John Lennon
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
— Steven Seagal
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
— Talib Kweli
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.
— Peter Schjeldahl
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.
— Rafal Blechacz
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
— Peter D. Kramer
If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
— Phyllis Bottome
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
— Quentin Tarantino
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
— Gertrude Stein
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
— Andre Gide
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
— Robert Stack
To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist.
— Adona M. Pierre
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
— PJ Harvey
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
— Randy Houser
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
— Jack Kirby
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
— G.K. Chesterton
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer.
— Henry Miller
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
— Sol Hurok
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos
— Alice Randall
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
— Marina Abramovic
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
— Margaret Hughes
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
— John Legend
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
— Calvin Miller
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...
— Stevie Smith
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
— Margaret Cho
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.
— Marc Chagall
Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and young and exciteful and a great video.
— Bryce Wilson
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
— Lou Reed
To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for
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poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.
— Walter Isaacson
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
— Angelina Jolie
An artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a heart that can break.
— Brian Morton
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
— Larry Gagosian
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
— Victor Hugo
Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist ... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'
— Charlie Worsham
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
— Norbert Lynton
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
— George Edward Moore
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
— Jeffrey Lewis
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
— Lawrence Durrell
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.
— Shanna Moakler
I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
— David Ramsey
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.
— Robin Thicke
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.
— H.L. Mencken
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
— Julian Schnabel
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
— Michael Palin
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!
— Matt Squire
The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
— William Blake
It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.
— Billy Preston
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.
— Justin Chon
A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
— Alexei Yagudin
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
— Robert Redford
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.
— Anthony Minghella
The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.
— Arnold Bennett
My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about ... everything.
— Grace Gummer
Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.
— Rudolf Arnheim
A truly great artist has many talents.
— Rick Riordan
Great art can only be created out of love.
— James A. Baldwin
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
— Salman Rushdie
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
— Julia Cameron
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.
— Novalis
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...
— Leni Riefenstahl
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
— Christopher Bollen
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
— Carl Sagan
Be a great artist especially when you draw your life's picture.
— Debasish Mridha
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
— Nicolas Berggruen
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
— Vikas Swarup
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
— Robert Henri
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
— Tony Robbins
I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.
— Pola Negri
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
— William Hogarth
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
— Tom Brady
TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
— Cheyenne Kimball
A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
— Amit Kalantri
A great artist is never poor.
— Karen Blixen
A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.
— Amit Kalantri
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
— Cornel West
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
— David Luiz
It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.
— Tobin Bell
It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)
— Anthony Bailey
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
— Jerry Saltz
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
— Criss Jami
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
— George Grosz
Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille