Quotes of: Great-genius Keyword

Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

David Foster

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

Damien Hirst

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

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Lester Bangs

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

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

8 Attributes of Great Achievers

As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

Alex & Me

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

Apprentice

[...] the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

All the Bright Places

Oh my great hope, all things are possible if you have the right knowledge

Archomai

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Horseradish

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

The Handmaid's Tale

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To Jerusalem and Back

The man was great, but no man was great enough to sever a friendship between her and one of her girls. Chicks before dicks, and all that.

Seducing the Bridesmaid

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.

Shaping the dream