Great Artist Quotes - Page 11

• For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

  Martha Stewart

  Real, Thinking, Dedication

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

  Arthur Cravan

  Artist, Great Art, Provocation

  "The forgotten story of ... Jack Johnson's fight with Oscar Wilde's poet nephew" by Graham Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

  Alice Randall

  Mother, Artist, Love Is

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• Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

  Calvin Miller

  Commitment, Artist, Becoming

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• The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, History, Humanity

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• To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

  John Ford

  Artist, Pay, Blunt

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• The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Book, Silent

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• For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, May, Very Good

  1991 In the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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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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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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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 Art

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• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  Georgia Harkness

  Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Gratitude, Loss, Artist

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• Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

  Tobin Bell

  Unique, Opportunity, Artist

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• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Writing, Artist

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Unique, Way

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

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• I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

  Tom Seaver

  Artist, Pitching, Quitting

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

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• I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Artist, Wish, Scientist

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• I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.

  Jon Bernthal

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.

  Asher Monroe

  Artist, Years, Trying

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Unconventional, Reason

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• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
  You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  Howard Stern

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Law, Doors

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

  Shana Alexander

  Artist, Needs, Pharaohs

  Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.158, Open Road Media

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