Great Artist Quotes - Page 2

• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

  59 Copy quote

• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

  92 Copy quote

• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  205 Copy quote

• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

  George Tooker

  Life, Art, Inspire

  46 Copy quote

• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

  68 Copy quote

• Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

  Jean Paul

  Art, Wine, Bread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

  21 Copy quote

• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Art, Flower, Civilization

  16 Copy quote

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  89 Copy quote

• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Artist

  8 Copy quote

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Art, Religion

  9 Copy quote

• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

  Lucian Freud

  Motivational, Art, Real

  42 Copy quote

• A great artist has to be ready to fail.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Failing, Great Art

  95 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Encouragement, Morning, Art

  8 Copy quote

• Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Artist, Space

  6 Copy quote