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• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Mind

  "Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Want, Buying

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• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Camels, Reason Why

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Heaven's great artillery.

  Richard Crashaw

  Life, Heaven, Artillery

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.170

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• Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

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• Great art changes you.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art

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• Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Moral, Art Is

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• People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

  Steven Moffat

  Art, Writing, People

  "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Believe, Political Differences

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Writing, Artist

  Michael Cunningham (2014). “The Snow Queen: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stupid, Eye

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Expression

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.225

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• It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Night, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.55, Library of America

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• All great art and literature is propaganda.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Literature, Propaganda

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3652, e-artnow

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• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Artist, Greatness

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.

  W. Clement Stone

  Artist, Skills, Choices

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art in the '90s, and they still have dinner three times a week.

  Nick Kroll

  Art, Careers, Three

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

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• I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Honesty, Caring

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• No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Produce

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.595, Faber & Faber

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• A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Fall, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

  Sol Hurok

  Artist, Want, Way

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

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• A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Artist, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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• ...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Traveller, Profession

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

  Marina Abramovic

  Powerful, Artist, Voice

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