Great Art Quotes - Page 9

• I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

  Brie Larson

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Five Minutes With Toronto Breakout Star Brie Larson of ‘Room’". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, wwd.com. September 14, 2015.

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Art, Cooking, Unselfish

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• All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Art, Spring, Inspiration

  Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

  Scott McClanahan

  Art, Culture, Stuff

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, School

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• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Past, Our World

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Danger, Made

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• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Art, Interpretation

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.134, Princeton University Press

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• Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Museums, Matter

  "Yoko Ono answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Light, Serenity

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• I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

  James Rosenquist

  Thinking, Artist, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there's so much culture around. It's a competitive city, it's full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

  Adrian Marcel

  Passion, Artist, Oakland

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Generosity, Curiosity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.

  Dave Brubeck

  Art, Perspective, Historical

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there are so many different platforms that you can make really specific, specialized content. I wouldn't have gotten this part because I'm not really considered a "traditional romantic lead," so I created it for myself.

  Christina Ricci

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

  Gary Giddins

  Art, Joy, Jazz

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.

  James Toback

  Art, Drama, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Appreciation, Art, Independent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And it's because small children don't worry about what anybody else thinks and slightly bigger children start to worry about these things.

  Claire Messud

  Art, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.

  Diego Cortez

  Art, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

  Jon Gordon

  Artist, Woods, Language

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• I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.

  George Thorogood

  Hate, Artist, People

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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