- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Great Artist Quotes
Words on the cost and craft of great art.
This page collects quotes about what separates a great artist from the rest, including the idea that turning pain into insight is part of the process. It also touches on how criticism, or "heat," often follows real artistic risk. Related reading: Passion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.
- First
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I go back and forth on him all the time, but I think he's a good artist. I don't know if he's a great artist or not, but he rose above his original level of achievement.
- Artist
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Luck
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
- Feeling
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
- Determination
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A great artist is never poor.
- Best
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- Art
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients - like you marry a great song with a great artist - and get the right television exposure, then you've got something that really is going to be sustainable. You can expand and blow up.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020