Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"The great artist is the simplifier."
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Great Art
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Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Time is the great art of man."
Wendy Beckett
Author
"Great art changes you."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"Great art can only be created out of love."
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"All great artists and thinkers are great workers."
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"I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art."
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"The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time."
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"Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes."
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"Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!"
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"To be great, art has to point somewhere."
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"Great art is cathartic; it is always moral."
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"All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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"There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!"
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"Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway."
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"A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make."
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"I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em."
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