Quotes on Great Artist

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

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.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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