Great Artist Quotes - Page 10

• A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Unique, Vision

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Artist, Quality, Different

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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

  Graham Coxon

  Teacher, Art, Students

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivation, Artist, Self

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Fate, Men

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• There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

  Dana Spiotta

  Artist, People, World

  "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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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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• 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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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Greatness, Obstacles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

  Franz Marc

  Artist, Past, Age

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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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• 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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• No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Fetch, Cash

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• The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Artist, Technique

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• He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

  Michael Apted

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

  Nile Rodgers

  Artist, Feel Good, Looks

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• I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Artist, Past, Self

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• One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

  Fernando Bujones

  Art, Stars, Mean

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

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• Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

  Ezra Pound

  Learning, Artist, Race

  'Literary Essays' (1954)'Henry James'

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• Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Art, Men, Tragedy

  "Polanski has served his time and must be freed" by Harvey Weinstein, www.independent.co.uk. September 28, 2009.

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Humanity

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• Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Ideas, People

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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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