Quotes of: Great-art Keyword

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bess Myerson

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Edith Hamilton

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

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

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William Samuel Johnson

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Don Roff

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

Chick Hearn

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.

The Art Spirit

The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There will be great achievements in science, and especially in art. When the oligarchs have completely mastered the people, they w...

Jack London

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

The Hotel New Hampshire

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

Andrea Riseborough

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Franz Liszt

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Michael Franti

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.

Shepard Fairey

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Poseidon's Wake

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

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian