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Great Art Quotes

1.
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
Marina Abramovic

Authors on Great Art Quotes: Madeleine L'Engle Joyce Carol Oates Richard Crashaw Henri Frederic Amiel Wendy Beckett Maggie Nelson Bill Reid Matthew Arnold Steve Jobs Banksy Kenneth Clark William Hogarth Gene Wilder Andrew Loog Oldham Stevie Smith Pola Negri Friedrich Nietzsche Rachel Stevens James A. Baldwin Ann Petry Susan Sontag Elayne Boosler John Lennon Vincent Van Gogh George Benson Anne Lamott Edward Abbey John Locke Tim Burton Marina Abramovic Arthur Cravan Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Bukowski
2.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh

3.
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
Charles Bukowski

4.
Time is the great art of man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

5.
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
Banksy

6.
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
William Hogarth

7.
All truly great art is propaganda.
Ann Petry

8.
All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
Friedrich Nietzsche

9.
Great art can only be created out of love.
James A. Baldwin

10.
Great art changes you.
Wendy Beckett

11.
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
Maggie Nelson

12.
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
John Locke

13.
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs

14.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
Gene Wilder

15.
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
Tim Burton

16.
Heaven's great artillery.
Richard Crashaw

17.
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.
Joyce Carol Oates

18.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Henri Frederic Amiel

19.
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold

20.
To be great, art has to point somewhere.
Anne Lamott

21.
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
Andrew Loog Oldham

22.
I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.
Pola Negri

23.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
Susan Sontag

24.
Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.
Bill Reid

25.
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
Rachel Stevens

26.
The message of great art is to disturb.
Elayne Boosler

27.
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
Madeleine L'Engle

28.
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
Arthur Cravan

29.
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
Stevie Smith

30.
The great artist takes what he needs.
Kenneth Clark

31.
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
Edward Abbey

32.
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
John Lennon

33.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
George Benson

34.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
Madeleine L'Engle