Great Artist Quotes

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A great artist has to be ready to fail.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

The great artist is the simplifier.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

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.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

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

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

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.

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

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

A great artist is never poor.

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

It shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you just need to be great at what you do. If you're an artist, be a great artist.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.