Great Art Quotes
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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.
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
