Great Art Quotes - Page 15

• Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

  Richard Thompson

  Artist, Thinking, Firsts

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• I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Grief, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

  Oswald Spengler

  Art, Math, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Form and actuality”

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• Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Perfect, Effort

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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Robert Menzies

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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• Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Baby, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Mark, Appeals

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are within them. At the same time, I also think, collectively, that there has to be a place for artists to reflect and deal with the society they're living in. I think that great art inevitably reflects some of the drama and trauma and conflicts that exist in the outer world.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, Drama, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Motivational, Movie, Artist

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• 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

  Art, Patterns, Chaos

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Block, Rushing

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

  George Benson

  Artist, Looks, Great Artist

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• Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

  William Saroyan

  Baseball, Art, Caring

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• My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• 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

  Art, Fall, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens". 2006.

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• 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

  Artist, People, Ruthless

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• Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Writing, Self

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• The message of great art is to disturb.

  Elayne Boosler

  Art, Messages, Art Is

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• 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

  Art, Rome, Pyramids

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• Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

  Noel Gallagher

  Art, Iron, House

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• It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Art, Intelligent, Years

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