Great Artist Quotes - Page 8

• On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.268, Vintage

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• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.

  George Saunders

  Artist, People, Energy

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

  Steve Vai

  Artist, Natural, Conscious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Being Different, Labels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

  Peter M. Brant

  Artist, Gun, Hands

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• I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  "Still Solid, 40 Years Later: Ashford And Simpson". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. September 11, 2006.

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• Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Artist, Light

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Artist, Boys, Silver Platter

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• As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Writing, Luxury, Liberty

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• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Creativity, Artist, Musician

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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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• 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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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Who We Are, Next

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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 Art

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• There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Artist, Interesting, People

  "Echo Chamber: Kathleen Hanna on Odd Future" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. June 07, 2011.

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• I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did something great. I think it's a mistake to consider the movie director as if they were great artists.

  Jesus Franco

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and backgrounds that became a common thing among artists in America. Many of the great artists in America, for example, came from Jewish families and backgrounds that fled all the way from Russia. It's remarkable, the great masters of American art and cinema who were coming from old roots in little villages there. And then Hollywood, and the haunting, hypnotic impact that American Cinema had throughout the world . . .

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

  Marc Jacobs

  Tattoo, Teenager, Heart

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Slave, Ideals

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Teacher, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Artist, Hollywood, World

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• Great artists have no country.

  Alfred de Musset

  Life, Country, Artist

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey”

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