Great Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

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.

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.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

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.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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 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.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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.

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.

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 interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

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.

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.

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.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

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.

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

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.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

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.

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