Great Art Quotes
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.