Great Artist Quotes - Page 12

• ... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

  Brenda Ueland

  Artist, Want, Materialistic

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• All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

  Chris Martin

  Children, Artist, America

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Men, Self

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Artist, Perfect

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• Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!

  Hiromi

  Moving, Heart, Artist

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• The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Artist, Greatness, World

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

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Unique, Vision

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• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  Tony Bennett

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Artist, Misunderstood, Comfort

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• I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did something great. I think it's a mistake to consider the movie director as if they were great artists.

  Jesus Franco

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and backgrounds that became a common thing among artists in America. Many of the great artists in America, for example, came from Jewish families and backgrounds that fled all the way from Russia. It's remarkable, the great masters of American art and cinema who were coming from old roots in little villages there. And then Hollywood, and the haunting, hypnotic impact that American Cinema had throughout the world . . .

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Artist, Keys, Giving

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• I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

  Michael Palin

  Art, Travel, Perfect

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• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Ymca, World

  Prejudices, First Series ch. 16 (1919)

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• Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opportunity, Dining, Artistic

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Men, Artist

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• Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Art, Passion

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• I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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