#great art

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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We do not judge great art. It judges us. ↗

— Caroline Gordon

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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! ↗

— Gene Wilder

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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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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. ↗

— Horace

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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ↗

— Louise Brooks

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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass. ↗

— Joe Murray

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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