That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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.
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.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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.
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. That is what we do.
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.
