Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. Votes: 4
George Jean NathanNever worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Votes: 2
Susan SontagGreat art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. Votes: 2
George Bernard ShawSociety is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Votes: 2
Letitia Elizabeth LandonGreat art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleThat amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. Votes: 0
Cornelia Otis SkinnerGreat is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRemember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. Votes: 0
Robert James WallerThere is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. Votes: 0
Manuel Alvarez BravoWith great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaArt! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Votes: 0
Ludwig van BeethovenI hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawNeutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing. Votes: 0
Haim HarariThe development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. Votes: 0
Patrick SwiftNo artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotNarrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 0
Eugenio MontaleTruthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. Votes: 0
Maurice SendakThe great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteIf thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonIt's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live. Votes: 0
Sidney LumetThe great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. Votes: 0
Vik MunizI'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. Votes: 0
Raul CastilloArt is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. Votes: 0
Sara BlecherGreat works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyRay Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies. Votes: 0
Leo FitzpatrickSeventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. Votes: 0
Lee StrasbergI cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaGreat art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. Votes: 0
Daisaku IkedaI don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. Votes: 0
Noel GallagherThe great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithYes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. Votes: 0
James ConnollyBooks are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. Votes: 0
Barry EislerGood art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions. Votes: 0
Richard BlancoI don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. Votes: 0
John HughesA small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittIn the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. Votes: 0
John French SloanIf all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonIn great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. Votes: 0
Robert HenriThe great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinLess disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustI grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. Votes: 0
Angela KinseyHatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. Votes: 0
Bill BarichGreat work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. Votes: 0
Jack WhiteGreat art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. Votes: 0
Robert QuillenMagic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. Votes: 0
Drummond Money-CouttsAlways keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. Votes: 0
Clint EastwoodO great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. Votes: 0
Jim MorrisonNations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. Votes: 0
Jacob BronowskiI have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareA great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. Votes: 0
Issey MiyakeAll great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. Votes: 0
John RuskinArt matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. Votes: 0
Josh GrobanTo create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleI went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. Votes: 0
Jackie DeShannonThe great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. Votes: 0
Francois DelsarteI don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GaskellRadio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. Votes: 0
Chick HearnTo find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. Votes: 0
David MametWhat makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. Votes: 0
Audrey FlackTo make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsI just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life. Votes: 0
Jane LynchThe great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly. Votes: 0
Kate BushI feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does. Votes: 0
Brie Larson