Best 41 quotes in «great art quotes» category

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

There is so much grit in the bottom of the container, almost all our natural preoccupations are low ones, and in most cases the rag-bag of consciousness is only unified by the experience of great art or of intense love. Neither of these was relevant to my messy and absent-minded goings-on.

The trick of all great art is to take control from the first sensation.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

When you want to see great art look deep into nature. You will see the grass, clouds, plants, flowers, trees, mountains, valleys, rivers and the seas. You will see art that will leave you speechless! And this art is created by nature.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Great artists suffer for the people.

All truly great art is propaganda.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

grievance does not make for great art.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

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.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

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.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

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

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

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.

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

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

Great art is like that. You can think you're a real hard-ass, with no use for artsy-fartsy jazz and then one of the greats hits you like a bullet though the heart. People talk about Tiger Woods, or Michael Jordan but if you really want to see a dude playing above the rim, spend half an hour looking at Picasso's from between the wars. The greats don't just want to score they want to dunk in your face.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

From my point of view, any outstanding work of art is a fantasy insofar as it reflects the unique world of a unique individual. Art is not just simple arithmetic, it's a delicate calculus. Keep in mind the passion of the scientist and the precision of the artist.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.