Great Art Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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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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• 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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• The great artist is the simplifier.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Writing, Artist, Creating Beauty

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, Art, Men

  "Notebook L". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Edmund Wilson, 1945.

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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Cities, Born

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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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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• 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.

  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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• 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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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Expression, Vision

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

  Stephen Rea

  Art, Thinking, Ambiguous

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• Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to do this for you , or you put your time and effort into it. Unless people see the great art you're making, they'll never buy it.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, People, Effort

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• grievance does not make for great art.

  Eva Figes

  Art, Doe, Grievance

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

  Stevie Smith

  Artist, Great Artist

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• To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

  Helio Gracie

  Basketball, Art, Mma

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• If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Poverty, Being True

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.665

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• All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

  John Edgar Park

  Art, Greatness, Imperfect

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• The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Discovery, Use

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 178), 1975.

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• I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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