#great art

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. ↗

— James Huneker

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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's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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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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I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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