Great Art Quotes - Page 19

• We do not judge great art. It judges us.

  Caroline Gordon

  Art, Umpires, Judging

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• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Art, Philosophy, August

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Great artists need great clients.

  I. M. Pei

  Artist, Needs, Clients

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

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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• I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Art, Skills, Wish

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2011.

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• It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Science

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• It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

  Wayne Swan

  Artist, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Simple, Drawing

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• A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

  Norbert Lynton

  Beautiful, Artist, Milestone

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• It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

  Rodney Crowell

  Artist, Two, People

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• There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

  Rachel Stevens

  Artist, More The Merrier, Great Artist

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• Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator...
  Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
  Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creative, Doe

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• Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

  Richard Blanco

  Art, Good Life, Answers

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• Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Appreciate, Littles

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

  John Irving

  Art, Hard Work, Serious

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Music, Beautiful, Art

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• All great art is a form of complaint

  John Cage

  Art, Form, Complaints

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• To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Moments, Wells

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• In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  Cecil Taylor

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

  "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Art, Reality, Analysis

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Reality, Men

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• If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Spit, Ifs

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• Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Self, Profound

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• All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

  Upton Sinclair

  Art, Optimistic, Creative

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