G Quotes
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“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 allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.”
“Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.”
“Great art can only be created out of love.”
“Great art changes you.”
“Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.”
“Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!”
“Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.”
“Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?”
“Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.”
“Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.”
“Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.”
“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils”
Source: Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
“Great art is always an invention that begins as an imitation.”
Source: Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
Source: A George Jean Nathan Reader
“Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.”
“Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”
“Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss”
Source: Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel
“Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.”
“Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.”
Source: Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].
“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.”
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
“Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”
“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.”
“Great art is not about the skills but the creative intelligence.”
Source: Quantraz
“Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.”
“Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
“Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“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.”
Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981
“Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.”
“Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.”
Source: Solitary Raven: The Selected Writings of Bill Reid
“Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.”
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
“Great Art” proves that men are superior to
women, that men are women, being labeled “Great
Art”, almost all of which, as the anti-feminists
are fond of reminding us, was created by men.
We know that “Great Art” is great because male
authorities have told us so, and we can’t claim
otherwise, as only those with exquisite sensitivities
far superior to ours can perceive and appreciate
the greatness, the proof of their superior
sensitivity being that they appreciate the siop that
they appreciate.”
“Great Art” proves that men are superior to
women, that men are women, being labeled “Great
Art”, almost all of which, as the anti-feminists
are fond of reminding us, was created by men.
We know that “Great Art” is great because male
authorities have told us so, and we can’t claim
otherwise, as only those with exquisite sensitivities
far superior to ours can perceive and appreciate
the greatness, the proof of their superior
sensitivity being that they appreciate the slop that
they appreciate.”
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
“Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.”
“Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today, perfect in our manner and mode, open to the riches and the glories of a realm that time forgot, but that great art reminds us of: not by its content, but by what it does in us: suspends the desire to be elsewhere. And thus it undoes the agitated grasping in the heart of the suffering self, and releases us - maybe for a second, maybe for a minute, maybe for all eternity - releases us from the coil of ourselves.”
“Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.”
“Great art, whether expressing itself in words, colours, or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again; that the merit of architectural, as of every other art, consists in its saying new and different things; that to repeat itself is no more a characteristic of genius in marble than it is of genius in print; and that we may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.”
Source: On Art and Life
“Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.”
Source: Characters of the Reformation
“Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.”
Source: Killosophy
“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.”
“Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”