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Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'
I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen on television.
I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art in this series.
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.
Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won't get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.