#great art

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. ↗

— Richard Holloway

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

— Stephen Rea

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. ↗

— Clive Bell

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Gene Wilder

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ↗

— Paracelsus

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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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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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