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  • The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

    "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".
  • The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

  • Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.

    Art   Mean   Boys  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

  • Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

    Art   Drinking   Reality  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.178
  • 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.

    Art   Light   Serenity  
  • 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.

    Art   Ideas   House  
  • The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.

    Integrity   Mean   Artist  
    Source: www.wbur.org
  • [Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

    Art   Impact   Tragedy  
  • The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

    Art   Greatness   World  
  • Great art changes you.

    Art   Great Art  
  • Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

  • Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

    Art   Silence   Quality  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics
  • 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 (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
  • A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

  • One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

    Artist   Play   Able  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Art   Writing   People  
    "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
  • The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.

    Brother   Artist   Rocks  
  • Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

    Art   Prayer   Use  
    Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing
  • So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

  • Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

    Music   Dance   Running  
  • Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

  • The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

    Life   Art   Soul  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press
  • If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form' would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

    Art   Talking   Today  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Art   Iron   House  
  • My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

  • Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  • The great artist takes what he needs.

    Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.89, Hachette UK
  • You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

    Art   Thinking   Order  
    Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
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