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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 Stevie Smith Pola Negri Rachel Stevens Friedrich Nietzsche James A. Baldwin Ann Petry Susan Sontag Elayne Boosler Vincent Van Gogh John Lennon George Benson Anne Lamott Edward Abbey Tim Burton John Locke Marina Abramovic Arthur Cravan Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Bukowski Richard Crashaw Joyce Carol Oates Henri Frederic Amiel Wendy Beckett Maggie Nelson Bill Reid Steve Jobs Banksy Matthew Arnold William Hogarth Kenneth Clark Gene Wilder Andrew Loog Oldham
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 great artists and thinkers are great workers.
Friedrich Nietzsche

8.
Great art can only be created out of love.
James A. Baldwin

9.
Great art changes you.
Wendy Beckett

10.
All truly great art is propaganda.
Ann Petry

11.
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
John Locke

12.
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
Maggie Nelson

13.
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
Tim Burton

14.
Heaven's great artillery.
Richard Crashaw

15.
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs

16.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
Gene Wilder

17.
To be great, art has to point somewhere.
Anne Lamott

18.
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.
Joyce Carol Oates

19.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Henri Frederic Amiel

20.
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold

21.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
Susan Sontag

22.
Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.
Bill Reid

23.
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

24.
I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.
Pola Negri

25.
The message of great art is to disturb.
Elayne Boosler

26.
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
Madeleine L'Engle

27.
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
Arthur Cravan

28.
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
Rachel Stevens

29.
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
Edward Abbey

30.
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

31.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
George Benson

32.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
Madeleine L'Engle

33.
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
Stevie Smith

34.
The great artist takes what he needs.
Kenneth Clark