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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst / Artist
Art
Experience
Great
Conceptual Art
Different
Good Art
Great Art
Mind
Thinking
Traditional
Art Good Great
Conceptual
Experience Art Good
Look
Stays
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks / Dancer
Art
Movies
Body
Faces
Great Art
Intense
Isolation
Movement
Soul
Art Great Movies
Face
Consist
Descriptive
Films
Transmitted
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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 / Film Actress
Frivolous
Great Art
Flatter
Impersonator
Lighthearted
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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
Joel Kinnaman / Actor
European Countries
Great Art
Mythology
Sweden
Wounded
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I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art that only appeals to people in a certain age range.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
Great Art
Range
Appeal
Certain Age
Demographic
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I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're looking for, you can make great art and then go home.
Noah Hawley / Television Producer
Great Art
Organized
Go Home
Suffer
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You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
Chuck Close / Photographer
Great Art
Principal
Work Art Great
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I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.
Sam Palladio / Actor
Great Art
Messy
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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 / Poet
Great Art
Truth Art Music
Socially
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I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
Erwin Mcmanus / Author
Jesus
Great Art
Love Is
Love Art Great
Creative Act
Gogh
In Fact
Picasso
Principle
Van
Van Gogh
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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 / Composer
Art
Christ
Divine
Great Art
Light
Remains
Serenity
Shapes
Supreme
Transitory
Forms
Ideal
Illuminates
Stages
Toward
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Art
Happiness
Men
Great Art
Little Things
Littles
Misery
Little
Art Great Man
Attain
Possible
Too
Creature
Having
Sir
Studying
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It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
Fred Kaplan /
Great Art
Morality
Art Great People
Unpleasant
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway / Writer
Art
God
Inspirational
Inspiring
Great
Attributes
Clarity
Creation
Great Art
Joy
Our Lives
Purpose
Simplicity
Whole
Also
Give
His
Marks
Seem
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I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.
Eliza Doolittle / Singer-Songwriter
Big News
Great Art
Love Art Women
Bodies
Page
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio Fonseca / Artist
Art
Abstract
Block
Great Art
Legs
Rushing
Shapes
Walks
Art Great Music
Art Music Great
Easily
Stirred
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Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.
Shea Hembrey /
Concepts
Great Art
Heart And Soul
Crafted
Greatly
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I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.
Roxane Gay / Writer
Great Art
Art Great People
Backs
Context
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Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.
Brian Stokes Mitchell /
Great Art
Sacred
Art Great Music
Art Form
Art Music Great
Directly
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace / Poet
Art
Achievement
Book
Great Art
Liars
Lying
Less
Call
However
None
Writes
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I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.
Harvey Pekar / Film Writer
Beatnik
Great Art
Jazz
Time Art Great
Writer
Art Time Great
Critic
Generation
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You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can tell when they're loading up for something big. There's just this humanity in it, and I think that's important as well.
Derek Trucks /
Great Art
Solo
Drum
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I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the '90s, especially the women who were so strong, like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. It's a great art form.
Rhiannon Giddens /
Carpenter
Great Art
Mary
Art Form
Country Music
Listened
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Accepted
Great Art
Ran
Saved
Symphony
Wind
Gone With The Wind
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
Sylvester Stallone / Actor
Art
Buying
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Great Art
Masters
Mood
Want
Rid
Sudden
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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
Roger Rees /
College
Fine
Great Art
Painter
Prestigious
Arts
Fine Art
Terribly
Schools
Sent
Year Later
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Dan Brown / Author
Art
Architecture
Bases
Great Art
London
Pyramids
Rome
Shadow
Washington
Underground
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The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'
Luke Davies / Writer
Uplifting
Election
Enriching
Great Art
Jerry
Life Art Experience
Breaking
Life Experience Art
Spiritually
Toy
Waves
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel / Philosopher
Art
Teacher
Able
Attraction
Great Art
Interest
Might
Song
Teaching
Vary
Art Great Music
Attain
Changing
Childish
Art Music Great
Read
Simply
Guess
Learn
Piece
Suggest
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I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.
King Tuff /
Embrace
Extremes
Great Art
Scared
Artists
Be Yourself
Fully
Imperfections
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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Great Art
Heard
Lucky
Photograph
Wall
Wealthy
Art Great Me
Dead
Inspires
Picasso
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The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.
Ludwig Goransson /
Great Art
No Idea
Pushing
Renaissance
Working Together
Art Work Great
Envelope
Work Art Great
Ten Years
Work Together
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Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Appreciation
Great
Great Art
Neglected
Pleasure
Prelude
Seasons
Sleep
Special
Winter
Most
Art Great Beautiful
Itself
Too
Conducive
Often
Down
Looked
Necessary
Requires
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic
Art
Civilized
Great Art
Intelligent
Organized
Sophisticated
Subtle
Years
Africa
African
Arrived
Continent
Creators
In Fact
Societies
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come, but money doesn't always come with great art. At the end of the day, it's about being satisfied with yourself as a human being. It's important to me to try to make that happen.
Scott Cohen / Actor
Great Art
Satisfied
Art Work Money
End Of The Day
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I was always told that films were evil and such, but I started to realise what a load of crap it was that something this good should be forbidden. I had been allowed to read as much as I wanted when I was younger, so I recognised great art when I saw it; I just didn't realise it would be at the cinema as well.
Wes Craven / Film Director
Cinema
Evil
Forbidden
Great Art
Load
Wanted
Art Good Great
Allowed
Younger
Read
Films
Saw
Realise
Recognised
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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.
Leon Krier / Architect
Charmed
Confusion
Determination
Great Art
Monica
No Doubt
Positively
Produce
Santa
Santa Monica
Museum
Warrant
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When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
Kip Thorne / Physicist
Great Art
Great Things
Leonardo
Renaissance
Understanding
Universe
Hundred Years
Insights
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The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon Musk / Investor
Amazing
Car
Technology
Delayed
Distracted
Electric
Great Art
Little Bit
Advance
Carried
Cause
Model
Mission
Obviously
Vehicles
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The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Choices
Commercialism
Dare
Elation
Episodes
Existence
Great Art
Mere
Pathos
Produce
Silence
Sorrow
Be Different
Buffy
Complex
Evolving
Playful
Proves
Themes
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I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.
Jean Pigozzi /
Art
Fifth
Great Art
House
Ideas
Malibu
No Idea
Warhol
Art Work Great
Avenue
Work Art Great
Walk
Million
Uninteresting
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I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Kathleen Hanna / Musician
Humor
Appreciate
Common Denominator
Great Art
Lowest
Sense Of Humor
Denominator
Watered
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