Great Art Quotes

• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Tragedy

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• Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Taste

  "Portrait of the Artist Behind Apple" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2013.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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• I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Gains, Clarity

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Effort, Sake

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Doe

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

  Banksy

  Artist, Stealing, Great Artist

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• A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Artist, Immature, Aliens

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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