Great Art Quotes - Page 3

• A great artist has to be ready to fail.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Failing, Ready

  95 Copy quote

• We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Math, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

  Elton John

  Art, Wall, Inspire

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

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

  182 Copy quote

  Show source

• All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Art, Spring, Inspiration

  Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

  10 Copy quote

• Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Light, Serenity

  20 Copy quote

• It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise - a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Play

  Bhagwan S. Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.), Krishna Prabhu (Swami.) (1984). “Just Around the Corner: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Art, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

  Gene Wilder

  Art, Film, Great Film

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

  Patricia Briggs

  Art, Dark, Soul

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.50, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Essentials, Melancholy

  82 Copy quote

• I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

  Paul Gauguin

  Healing, Artist, Suffering

  "The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Voice, People

  4 Copy quote

• When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Life Changing, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

  30 Copy quote

• All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.331

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Loneliness, Balance

  The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4, 1944-1947.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  8 Copy quote

• Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Art, Prayer, Use

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

  Rosanna Arquette

  Artist, Musician, Labels

  8 Copy quote

• All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Half, World

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Art, Believe, Men

  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1951). “North and south”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Art Is, Indefinable

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

  Julia Child

  Art, Sculpture, Four

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.145, Anchor

  8 Copy quote

  Show source