Great Artist Quotes - Page 7

• True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Artist, Poetry, Childhood

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• I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Thinking, Competition, Done

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• The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

  Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

  Artist, Able, Faults

  Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann, 1931.

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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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• 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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• Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.

  David Blaine

  Dream, Emotional, Artist

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• You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.

  Trip Hawkins

  Art, Passion, Entrepreneur

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Sadness, Sacrifice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Eye, Artist

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.73

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• There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, Skills, Fields

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• To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

  John Lasseter

  Successful, Artist, Player

  "John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki Comic-Con Interview". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 24, 2009.

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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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• Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Style, Immaturity

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• There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she has a great voice. I also admire and respect John Legend. When he wrote "All of Me," I fell in love with the melody and music. He is an artist that really loves music and just has a great way with words.

  Heather Headley

  Artist, Voice, Legends

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

  Josephine Decker

  Artist, Risk, Pay

  " How Do You Make a Living as an Independent Filmmaker? It’s Not Easy" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. December 16, 2014.

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• There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

  Rachel Stevens

  Artist, More The Merrier, Great Art

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• It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

  Rodney Crowell

  Artist, Two, People

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• A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

  Norbert Lynton

  Beautiful, Artist, Milestone

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• Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Simple, Drawing

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• It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

  Wayne Swan

  Artist, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Art, Skills, Wish

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Great artists need great clients.

  I. M. Pei

  Artist, Needs, Clients

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

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• The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.

  Johnny Winter

  Brother, Artist, Rocks

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• There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  Zac Posen

  Artist, Careers, People

  "Just A Minute With: Fashion designer Zac Posen". Interview with Reuters Staff, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2007.

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• All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Great Work, Great Art

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