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Great art should be shown with great excitement. — Thomas Hoving

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work. — Seth Godin

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness. — Thom Yorke

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West

No great work of art is ever finished. — Michelangelo

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

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss — Jamie Catto

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ... — Robert Henri

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. — Max Beerbohm

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. — Edward Abbey

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. — Roman Coppola

I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares
With great creating nature. — William Shakespeare

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. — Barry Eisler

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air. — Amy Poehler

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. — Quintilian

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. — Scott Sigler

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. — William James

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. — Philip Guston

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. — Arthur Cravan

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live. — Sidney Lumet

Silence is one great art of conversation. — William Hazlitt

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything. — W. Somerset Maugham

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. — Stewart Stafford

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one. — Marcel Proust

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H.L. Mencken

Great art ignites a passion for freedom. — Marty Rubin

Great art can only be created out of love. — James A. Baldwin

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule. — Joy Williams

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. — Madeleine L'Engle

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person. — Christie Brinkley

To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate. — Various

All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. — Edward Abbey

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up. — Amy Ray

All great art contains an element of the irrational. — Edith Sitwell

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. — John Edgar Park

The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art. — Sarah Scott

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years. — Vi Hart

From personal adversity comes great art — Tan Redding

Great Representation of the Art and Use of Fencing, written by the Italian maestro Ridolfo Capo Ferro — Cary Elwes

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. — Ellen Terry

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. — Raul Castillo

... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive. — Niccolo Machiavelli

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark. — Patricia Briggs

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. — Sean Lennon

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

The great artist is the simplifier. — Vincent Van Gogh

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes. — Steve Jobs

Great is the art of beginning. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies. — Leo Fitzpatrick

There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move. — Art Modell

One great work of art inspired by another. — Dan Brown

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. — George Sand

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. — F Scott Fitzgerald

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich

If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born. — Irvin D. Yalom

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. — Josh Groban

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great. — Hannah Gadsby

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. — James Huneker

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. — John Hughes

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. — Oscar Wilde

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. — Chick Hearn

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller

Grievance does not make for great art. — Eva Figes

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. — Rhys Ifans

That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living. — Kate Lord Brown

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

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

You don't get great art by playing it safe. — Stewart Stafford

All truly great art is propaganda ... — Ann Petry

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. — Jessye Norman

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. — Stephen Rea