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Great Artist Quotes (page 2)

Charles Dudley Warner quote: "A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Charles Dudley Warner
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie. George Eliot
Douglas Sirk quote: "I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the..."
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart. Douglas Sirk
There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an... Lin Yutang
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive Robert A. Heinlein
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. David Foster Wallace
The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off. John Steinbeck
H. L. Mencken quote: "The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom..."
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. H. L. Mencken
Jakob Hlasek is six foot two and built like a halfback, his blond hair in a short square Eastern European cut, with icy eyes and cheekbones out to here: He looks like either a Nazi male model or a lifeguard in hell and seems in general just way too scary ever to try to talk to. His backhand is a one-hander, rather like Ivan Lendl’s, and watching him practice it is like watching a great artist casually sketch something. I keep having to remember to blink. David Foster Wallace
Guy de Maupassant quote: "The great artists are those who impose their personal vision..."
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. Guy de Maupassant
George Edward Moore quote: "A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. George Edward Moore
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. Lady Gaga
Isak Dinesen quote: "A great artist is never poor."
A great artist is never poor. Isak Dinesen
Sol Hurok quote: "If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the..."
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. Sol Hurok

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