Great Art Quotes - Page 11

• Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

  Jamie Catto

  Art, Boss, Democratic

  Jamie Catto (2016). “Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel”, p.144, Canongate Books

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• So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

  Kim Yuna

  Strength, Quality, Skating

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• I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent the great artists that created him. At the same time, as an actor you have to find what you relate to in the character and make it your own, and hopefully people respond to it.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Character, Artist, People

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Art, Pain, Men

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• The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Artist, Greatness, World

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• You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Order

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

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• One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Play, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  Colin Wilson

  Artist, Men, Answers

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.191, Diversion Books

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Personality, Pieces

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• Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

  Romare Bearden

  Artist, Vision, Mold

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• All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Art, Self, Wonder

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• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• The great artist takes what he needs.

  Kenneth Clark

  Artist, Needs, Great Artist

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Art, Enemy, Looks

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

  Sara Blecher

  Art, Persons, Subjective

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Thinking, Icons

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Brother, Art

  Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

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• The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

  John Locke

  Art, Littles

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• I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

  Ray Charles

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.

  Frank Stella

  Integrity, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

  Raekwon

  Artist, Soul, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Men, Black

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• He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Art, Night

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• ... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Art, Reality, Museums

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