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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day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls.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
The great artist is the simplifier. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Great artists suffer for the people. -- Marvin Gaye
Good artists copy, great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. -- Igor Stravinsky
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal, -- Banksy
A great artist has to be ready to fail. -- Marina Abramovic
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
A great artist is a great man in a great child. -- Victor Hugo
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. -- H. L. Mencken
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Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos -- Alice Randall
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. -- Oscar Wilde
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. -- Willa Cather
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -- Walter Isaacson
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. -- Salman Rushdie
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
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. -- David Foster Wallace
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
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. -- John Steinbeck
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
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
A great artist is never poor. -- Isak Dinesen
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. -- Franz Liszt
A truly great artist has many talents. -- Rick Riordan
The great artist takes what he needs. -- Kenneth Clark
Every great artist has the sense of provocation. -- Arthur Cravan
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. -- Robert Stack
Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me. -- Charlie Rose
I consider my work great, as I am a great artist. -- Pola Negri
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. -- George Edward Moore
GalÃ¡s is a great artist with a very powerful voice. -- Marina Abramovic
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. -- William Hogarth
There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist. -- Shirley Knight
All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel -- Simon de Pury
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. -- Anais Nin
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment. -- Calvin Miller
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes. -- Margaret Hughes
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. -- Steven Seagal
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. -- Steven Van Zandt
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. -- T. S. Eliot
TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist. -- Cheyenne Kimball
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. -- Tim Burton
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. -- Andre Gide
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. -- Robert Breault
A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. -- Jerry Saltz
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. -- Loren Eiseley
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. -- C. V. Wedgwood
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. -- Jeffrey Lewis
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. -- Irwin Shaw
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. -- Edward Weston
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. -- Vikas Swarup
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics. -- Volker Ullrich
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that. -- Werner Bischof
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ... -- Stevie Smith
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. -- Paul Gauguin
A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice. -- Alexei Yagudin
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful. -- Jenni Rivera
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something. -- Donald Miller
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. -- Willa Sibert Cather
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. -- Rafal Blechacz
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. -- Quentin Tarantino
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success. -- Yelawolf
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. -- Sol Hurok
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. -- Jerry Saltz
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? -- Peter D. Kramer
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. -- John French Sloan
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. -- Norbert Lynton
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. -- Nicolas Berggruen
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying? -- Larry Gagosian
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. -- Edith Sitwell
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing -- George Grosz
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do. -- Tony Yayo
It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way. -- Tobin Bell
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. -- Randy Houser
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet... -- Leni Riefenstahl
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. -- Artie Shaw
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. -- Frank Gehry
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. -- Gertrude Stein
[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best. -- Ed Sheeran
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride. -- Robert Redford
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. -- Marjorie Benton Cooke
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em. -- John Lennon
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
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! -- PJ Harvey
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. -- Carl Sagan
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. -- Tom Brady
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
My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. -- Grace Gummer
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve. -- Matt Smith
My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends. -- Shanna Moakler
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. -- Anthony Minghella
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. -- Grace Gummer
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. -- Giacomo Leopardi
I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele]. -- Jared Leto
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. -- William Blake
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. -- Tony Robbins
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently. -- John Edgar Wideman
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly. -- Criss Jami
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads. -- Julian Schnabel
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. -- Charles Saatchi
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
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do. -- Lou Reed
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
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
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world. -- Igor Babailov
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. -- John Legend
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home. -- Leonard Peltier

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