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Great art picks up where nature ends. -- Marc Chagall
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. -- George Jean Nathan
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. -- Edward Hopper
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. -- Louise Brooks
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. -- Ansel Adams
Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss -- Jamie Catto
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. -- Yoko Ono
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores. -- Robert Hughes
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. -- Harmony Korine
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light. -- Henry David Thoreau
It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL. -- Claire Messud
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. -- Charles Bukowski
The great artist is the simplifier. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. -- James Huneker
The interpretation of dreams is a great art. -- Paracelsus
All great art is born of the metropolis. -- Ezra Pound
The message of great art is to disturb. -- Elayne Boosler
We do not judge great art. It judges us. -- Caroline Gordon
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. -- Glenn Close
A great artist has to be ready to fail. -- Marina Abramovic
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art -- Susan Sontag
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. -- George Bernard Shaw
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. -- Robert Hughes
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. -- Edith Hamilton
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. -- Marshall McLuhan
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. -- Kanye West
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. -- Herman Melville
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos. -- Diana Gabaldon
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. -- Giacomo Casanova
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. -- Charlton Heston
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. -- Franz Liszt
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. -- Damien Hirst
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self. -- Christopher Booker
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
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. -- Samuel Johnson
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. -- Richard Holloway
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
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. -- Dan Brown
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon. -- Michael Leunig
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. -- King Tuff
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great art changes you. -- Wendy Beckett
Great art inspires great art. -- Andrew Stanton
Art, that great undogmatized church. -- Ellen Key
all truly great art is propaganda ... -- Ann Petry
All great art and literature is propaganda. -- George Bernard Shaw
Silence is one great art of conversation. -- William Hazlitt
grievance does not make for great art. -- Eva Figes
Art is the great stimulus to life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a great art to saunter ! -- Henry David Thoreau
Time is the great art of man. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
All great art is a form of complaint -- John Cage
No great work of art is ever finished. -- Michelangelo
To be great, art has to point somewhere. -- Anne Lamott
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral. -- Joyce Carol Oates
When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art. -- Jared Leto
Great art should be shown with great excitement. -- Thomas Hoving
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings. -- W. H. Auden
All great art contains an element of the irrational. -- Edith Sitwell
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes. -- Steve Jobs
Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. -- Robert Schumann
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. -- V. S. Naipaul
Great art can only be created out of love. -- James A. Baldwin
All great art is a visual form of prayer. -- Wendy Beckett
There is a great amity between designing and art. -- Joseph Addison
There's an audience for all kinds of great art. -- Robin Thicke
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. -- Martin Freeman
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. -- Josh Billings
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener -- Arnold Schoenberg
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. -- Edward Abbey
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. -- Julius Meier-Graefe
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. -- Peter H. Reynolds
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art -- Marty Rubin
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. -- Edward Abbey
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art. -- Maggie Nelson
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. -- Vanessa Mae
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies. -- Nick Offerman
For every good art critic there may be ten great artists. -- Clement Greenberg
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. -- Susan Sontag
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art. -- William Blake
Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me. -- Alicia Keys
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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. -- Max Beerbohm
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! -- Gene Wilder
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. -- Philip Guston
The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. -- Barry Eisler
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. -- Ellen Terry
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. -- Stephen Rea
A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention. -- Christopher Ricks
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form. -- Kevin Costner
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. -- Oscar Wilde
Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original! -- Thomas Yalden
There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. -- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. -- Robert James Waller
Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art -- Dominique de Menil
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. -- John Edgar Park
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. -- Winston Churchill
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, -- Geoffrey Canada
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. -- John Irving
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. -- Helio Gracie
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. -- Thomas A. Edison
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. -- Patrick Swift
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. -- T. S. Eliot
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. -- Eugenio Montale
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. -- Maurice Sendak

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