Great Art Quotes - Page 10

• I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

  Robbie Rist

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Art, Expression, Musical

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.41, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

  Nick Hornby

  Art, People, Forgiving

  "Juliet, Naked". Book by Nick Hornby, www.npr.org. 2009.

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• Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

  Patricia Briggs

  Art, Dark, Soul

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.50, Penguin

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• At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Essentials, Melancholy

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• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

  Paula Scher

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

  Julia Child

  Art, Sculpture, Four

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.145, Anchor

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• I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Art, Believe, Men

  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1951). “North and south”

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• All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Half, World

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with a trap beat and you're not mumbling, no disrespect to all of the great artists out there doing what they're doing, I'm not hating, I'm just saying it's difficult for r&b singers right now to make quality music.

  Tony Sunshine

  Hate, Real, Artist

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Loneliness, Balance

  The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4, 1944-1947.

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

  Tim Burton

  Artist, Great Artist, Draws

  Source: english.eastday.com

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• Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you down into drugs and alcohol and depression or you can turn it into something good, fun even, you know, and I tell young people who are going through depression that this might be the most important time of your life. This might be what makes you a great artist later on.

  Jeff Ross

  Fun, Artist, People

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm.

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• The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

  Al Pacino

  Artist, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Voice, People

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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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• For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Way, Good Times

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Real, Moving

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

  Romola Garai

  Art, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

  David Brooks

  Art, People, Culture

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, Simon and Schuster

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• We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Greatness, Civilization

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

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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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