Famous Quotes About great

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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 artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.