Great Art Quotes - Page 8

• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.

  George Saunders

  Artist, People, Energy

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she has a great voice. I also admire and respect John Legend. When he wrote "All of Me," I fell in love with the melody and music. He is an artist that really loves music and just has a great way with words.

  Heather Headley

  Artist, Voice, Legends

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [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

  Artist, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.

  Nia Long

  Art, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Raul Castillo

  Art, People, Inspired

  "Looking Actor Raúl Castillo: Telling Human Stories". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

  Paul Smith

  Teacher, Art, Illustration

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• Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

  Russell Simmons

  Wise, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Life Changing, Writing

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• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

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

  John Ruskin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.331

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• A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Quality, Mesmerizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both directors combine moral seriousness with great artistry and, certainly in Hitchcock's case, an enormous respect for plot, for its power to enthrall and delight.

  Adam Ross

  Years, Brain, Tutelage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Art, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  Bob Colacello

  Art, Taken, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

  Paul Rust

  Artist, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Living Things

  Bill Reid (2012). “Solitary Raven: The Selected Writings of Bill Reid”, p.111, D & M Publishers

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• 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

  Prayer, Condolences, Artist

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• I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

  Rosanna Arquette

  Artist, Musician, Labels

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• Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

  Kanye West

  Art, Hurt, People

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

  Gene Wilder

  Art, Film, Great Film

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

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Art, Philosophy

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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