Great Artists Quotes
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
— Michael Cunningham
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
— Robert Henri
Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Creative artists have great passion.
— Jack Welch
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
— Sophie Swetchine
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
— Guy De Maupassant
Great artists have no country.
— Alfred De Musset
Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
— Phyllis Bottome
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
— Rosanna Arquette
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
— Janina Gavankar
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
— Jeff Koons
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
— Quentin Tarantino
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
— Pablo Picasso
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
— Richard Linklater
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
— Honore De Balzac
Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated,
— Philip Roth
Great artists suffer for the people.
— Marvin Gaye
I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.
— Sevyn Streeter
A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP.
— Walker Percy
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
— Margaret Cho
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
— Andrew Loog Oldham
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
— Steve Stoute
Great artists need great clients.
— I.M. Pei
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
— Issey Miyake
Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.
— Scott Miller
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unlike.
— Maya Angelou
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
— Nadia Boulanger
It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.
— Kenneth Edmonds
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[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
— Theophile Gautier
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
— Lawrence Durrell
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
— Andrew Stanton
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists ... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
— Brian McKnight
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
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
— George Benson
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
— Queen Victoria
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
— David Galenson
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, ShawnColvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp. — Art Garfunkel
Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
— Roberta Smith
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
— Arthur Erickson
Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!
— Matt Squire
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
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 artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
— Nadeem Aslam
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
— H.L. Mencken
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
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
— Richard Thompson
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
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
— Christopher Bollen
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
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
— Kathleen Hanna
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
— Rachel Stevens
Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.
— Kathleen Battle
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 magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.
— Amit Kalantri
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
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
— Francine Du Plessix Gray
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
— Walter Darby Bannard
A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ...
— Lucy R. Lippard
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
— Walter Isaacson
There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
— Natalie Cole
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
— Edward Hopper
Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.
— Edith Hamilton
