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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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• 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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• Waiting is one of the great arts.

  Margery Allingham

  Art, Waiting, Self Control

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books

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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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• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Formulas

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• In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Discipline, Daring

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• Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Greatness, Scientist

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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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• I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Adversity, Artist, Treasure

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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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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• In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Military, War

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• You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

  John Lasseter

  Mean, Artist, Unique

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  Arthur Lismer

  Art, Believe, Deeds

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Use

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  William E. Gladstone

  Important, Taxation, Firsts

  Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool in 1859. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by F. W. Hirst, p. 241, 1931.

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• Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Quality, World

  1930 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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• Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Fantasy, Life Is

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• A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

  James Whistler

  Artist, Students, Paint

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• The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Development, Moral

  "Italian Report" by Patrick Swift, for the Committee of Cultural Relations, Dept of External Affairs, December 1955.

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• A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Contentment, Artist

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

  Peter D. Kramer

  Taken, Artist, What If

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