#great art

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

— George Jean Nathan

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All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Great art picks up where nature ends. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. ↗