Quotes on Great Art

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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.

There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.