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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

  Bill Barich

  Art, Lakes, Sea

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• There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  Zac Posen

  Artist, Careers, People

  "Just A Minute With: Fashion designer Zac Posen". Interview with Reuters Staff, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2007.

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• All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Great Work, Thinker

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• I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

  Jon Foreman

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Artist, Quality, Life Is

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• For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

  Martha Stewart

  Real, Thinking, Dedication

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Art, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Greatness, World

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• All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Contemplation

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.50, Macmillan

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• To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Art, Exercise

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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• To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Art, Exercise

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.416

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• A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Suffering, Energy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949). “Truth and Fantasy from My Life”

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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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• Great artists suffer for the people.

  Marvin Gaye

  Artist, People, Suffering

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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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• An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.

  Diego Rivera

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Artist

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• All great art is a form of complaint

  John Cage

  Art, Form, Complaints

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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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