Great Artist Quotes - Page 8

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

  William Hogarth

  Time, Artist, Great Art

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

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• I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Thinking, Competition, Done

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• [Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Imagination, Desire

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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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• Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Artist, Creating

  Germaine Greer (2001). “The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work”, p.134, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Mistake, Character

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

  John Lasseter

  Successful, Artist, Player

  "John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki Comic-Con Interview". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 24, 2009.

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• There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, Skills, Fields

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• The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Eye, Artist

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.73

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• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.

  George Saunders

  Artist, People, Energy

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she has a great voice. I also admire and respect John Legend. When he wrote "All of Me," I fell in love with the melody and music. He is an artist that really loves music and just has a great way with words.

  Heather Headley

  Artist, Voice, Legends

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Sadness, Sacrifice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

  Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

  Artist, Able, Faults

  Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann, 1931.

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• It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Recognition, Curator

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• You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.

  Trip Hawkins

  Art, Passion, Entrepreneur

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

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• A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Artist, Logic, Language

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• People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Home, Artist, Cds

  "Oates Details Writers' Last Days in 'Wild Nights'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. April 27, 2008.

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• A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

  Gertrude Stein

  Artist, Sorrow, Littles

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.108, Vintage

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Work, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sports, Artist, People

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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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• 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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