Great Art Quotes
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Great Art Quotes & Sayings
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Great art should be shown with great excitement.
— Thomas Hoving
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
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
— Robert Henri
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 saidThere 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
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
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
— Arthur Cravan
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
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
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
— Ezra Pound
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
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
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 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 releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
One great work of art inspired by another.
— Dan Brown
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 artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
— Vikas Swarup
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
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
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
You don't get great art by playing it safe.
— Stewart Stafford
All truly great art is propaganda ...
— Ann Petry
