Great Art Quotes - Page 5

• 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

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Art, Cooking, Unselfish

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• Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Artist, Evil

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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• Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Art, Philosophy

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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

  Gene Wilder

  Art, Film, Great Film

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

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• Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

  Kanye West

  Art, Hurt, People

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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

  Rosanna Arquette

  Artist, Musician, Labels

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• My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

  Shanna Moakler

  Prayer, Condolences, Artist

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• Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Living Things

  Bill Reid (2012). “Solitary Raven: The Selected Writings of Bill Reid”, p.111, D & M Publishers

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• 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

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• Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

  William Hogarth

  Time, Artist, Great Artist

  William Hogarth (2013). “Engravings by Hogarth”, Courier Corporation

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• I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

  Noel Gallagher

  Art, Adversity, Thinking

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• 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

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• To be great, art has to point somewhere.

  Anne Lamott

  Art, Greatness

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.205, Anchor

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• 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.

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• This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Boys, Age

  Televised BBC interview, 1968.

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• There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

  Alain de Botton

  Artist, Greatness, Landscape

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• Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

  Romare Bearden

  Artist, Vision, Mold

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• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Loss, Age

  Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Past, Greatness

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Opportunity, Skills

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