Great Art Quotes - Page 17

• I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

  Pola Negri

  Artist, Great Artist

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

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• I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

  Mike Tyson

  Artist, One Day, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.

  Simon Critchley

  Art, Philosophy, Practice

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• As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Mean

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• In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.

  Simon de Pury

  Artist, Impact, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

  Wade Guyton

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

  Homi K. Bhabha

  Artist, Culture, Looks

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• The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

  Renee Fleming

  Communication, Artist, Voice

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.151, Penguin

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• 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

  Artist, Products, Who You Are

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• The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Art, Real, Writing

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• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  Taylor Swift

  Hero, Thinking, Artist

  "Taylor Swift: 100 Miles an Hour and Not Slowing Down". Interview with Annie Reuter, www.marieclaire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Crazy, Artist

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• There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, People, Height

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

  Ezra Pound

  Learning, Artist, Race

  'Literary Essays' (1954)'Henry James'

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• Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

  Donald Miller

  Art, Robots, Form

  Twitter post from May 28, 2015

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• Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

  Arthur Cravan

  Artist, Great Artist, Provocation

  "The forgotten story of ... Jack Johnson's fight with Oscar Wilde's poet nephew" by Graham Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• Great art can only be created out of love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Artist

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• Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

  Calvin Miller

  Commitment, Artist, Becoming

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• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Horace

  Art, Liars, Lying

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• On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.268, Vintage

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• Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

  John Ford

  Artist, Pay, Blunt

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• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

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