Great Art Quotes (page 2)

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• movie
• little
• art

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. Pauline Kael

• book
• solitude
• art

Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter. John Leonard

• serious
• hard
• hard work

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. John Irving

• great
• time
• greatness

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. Robert Henri

• work
• art
• film

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. Harmony Korine

• beauty
• beautiful
• music

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of lightyears and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King,... Carl Sagan

• art
• great
• greatness

All great art is a form of complaint John Cage

• moving
• thinking
• greatness

He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All I think of when I see that picture is that it has the supreme mastery I have spent all my life trying to attain. And shall not. Ever. John Fowles

• great
• death
• saying

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. Don DeLillo

• art
• great
• forgiveness

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. Nick Hornby

• art
• great
• people

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Susan Sontag

• art
• great
• greatness

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

• rich
• beauty
• knowledge

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• painting
• art
• architecture

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. Julia Child

• art
• great
• god

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. John Ruskin