Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"No great work of art is ever finished."
Great Work quotes
Great Work
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"All great artists and thinkers are great workers."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"No man ever did or can do a great work alone."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret."
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work."
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"As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable."
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"Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come."
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"If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost."
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"The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world."
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"All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art."
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"Committing great work does not necessarily feed you."
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"James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end."
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"Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering."
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"If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work"
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"Great work is always shunned at first."
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"Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it."
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"Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone."
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"The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise."
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