Great Art Quotes - Page 4

• The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

  Edith Sitwell

  Children, Artist, World

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.125, A&C Black

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• I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Adversity, Artist, Treasure

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• [Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Imagination, Desire

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• Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.
  Realism was the death of art.
  Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Space, Two

  "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.

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• Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Unconventional, Reason

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• The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Development, Moral

  "Italian Report" by Patrick Swift, for the Committee of Cultural Relations, Dept of External Affairs, December 1955.

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• A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Lying, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Unique, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, People, Glimpse

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.183, Pan Macmillan

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• I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.

  Asher Monroe

  Artist, Years, Trying

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

  Kanye West

  Art, Pain, Creative

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• I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

  Tom Seaver

  Artist, Pitching, Quitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.

  Jon Bernthal

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
  You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  Howard Stern

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• 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 - at first.

  Josephine Decker

  Artist, Risk, Pay

  " How Do You Make a Living as an Independent Filmmaker? It’s Not Easy" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. December 16, 2014.

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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Fantasy, Life Is

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• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Formulas

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• Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Art, Strong, Curiosity

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• I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

  Miles Davis

  Art, Play, Band

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Art, Likes, Chains

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• I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

  Jack Dorsey

  Art, Math, Thinking

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• They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art. Van Gogh and Picasso had troubled souls, but poor Steve Kaufman has been shot once, stabbed 3 times - all by women. That is a lot of drama for great art.

  Robin Leach

  Art, Drama, Soul

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• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  Georgia Harkness

  Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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