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Example sentences for "great artist"

  • Compare Hauptmann and Brieux, the one a great artist, the other no more than a raucous journalist.

  • The essential thing about Cowperwood is that he is two diverse beings at once; a puerile chaser of women and a great artist, a guinea pig and half a god.

  • He thinks of Ulysses, not as a mere heretic and criminal, but as a great artist.

  • The favourite national critics of that era (and it extended to 1895, at the least) were wholly blind to the fact that he was a great artist.

  • We have heard the words "great artist" used so often and so carelessly that their tremendous significance escapes.

  • He was a great artist also, with possibly more intelligence in his singing than Lascelle.

  • He was a great artist, a great actor in whatever role he took.

  • While Campanini was a great artist, he was a very petty man in many ways.

  • Gaspar de Crayer was undoubtedly a great artist though an offshoot of Rubens; and Giampietrino and Cesare da Sesto were both solid and intelligent painters, though they did not rival their master, Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Had Renoir advanced no further than his masterly Baigneuse of 1884, he would nevertheless have gone down in history as a great artist.

  • Perhaps no great artist in the world's history has been so wantonly libelled, maligned and ridiculed as he.

  • To be the companion of a great artist, of a scholar, would have meant happiness for her.

  • Concha felt stirred with feminine sentimentality, that superficial, whimsical, sensitiveness that made her friends look on her as a great artist.

  • And she drew herself up vainly, delighted that people thought she was beautiful, that she would enjoy the emotion until then unknown of seeing her image reproduced by a great artist.

  • She was his wife; the wife of a great artist.

  • His letters to the Press are apt to be dismissed as shrill, cheap, thin, not worthy a great artist, still unworthier of his endeavour to immortalise them.

  • If Mr. Whistler would leave off using mud and clay on his palette and paint cleanly, like a gentleman, we should be happy to bestow any amount of praise on him, for he has all the elements of a great artist in his composition.

  • Do you suppose they could prove to the man in the street that Shakespeare was a great artist?

  • It seems to you very unlikely that an everyday sort of girl, whom you have met in society and know all about, should develop into a great artist.

  • But, to be a great artist, one must have more than technical qualifications.

  • He knows it; the man is a great artist; he smiles at the voice of his genius.

  • From Luini's surprise, and inasmuch as we have no record of similar work before his time, it is reasonable to suppose that Titian was the first great artist to use this form of sketch for experimental purposes.

  • But let a great artist or writer make use of one or other of these uglinesses, instantly it becomes transfigured: with a touch of his fairy wand he has turned it into beauty: it is alchemy: it is enchantment.

  • But early appreciation of complex harmony, and skill in execution, are not enough to produce a great artist, for there must be associated with these things a powerful imagination.

  • Now Blake was artist as well as prophet, a great artist in two arts; but everything conspired to make him confuse the functions of artist and prophet, which indeed are easily confused.

  • For lack of that humility Blake refused to call Rubens a great artist.

  • He may have been a great artist,' said Mr Brindley, 'or he may not.

  • She HAD floated o'er the bosom of the lake with a great artist.

  • It takes a great artist to turn over, and you're only a blooming chauffeur.

  • When he paints he follows no rule save that of inspiration; yet he is not content to be a great artist, but would be a man of science also.

  • Spectacles on nose, magnifier in hand, he sat in his dark bottega near the Ponte Vecchio, looking more like a small shopkeeper than a great artist.

  • The caprice of chance has produced a picture worthy of a great artist.

  • Je m'y connais, and I believe you have the making of a great artist.

  • I know I shall be a great artist," he said to himself.

  • She thought that Philip did a brave thing when he left Paris because he was conscious he could not be a great artist; and he was enchanted when she expressed enthusiastic admiration for him.

  • Who would be a clerk when he might be a great artist, she asked dramatically, and she besought Philip to believe in himself: that was the great thing.

  • But I feel impelled to give homage to a great artist, whose work I am able to judge with some impartiality.

  • A great artist writes a gay work when he is sad, and a sad work when he is gay, almost in spite of himself.

  • She is very clever and a great artist, and she lives in an atmosphere of which, a few months ago, I knew nothing.

  • I admit that Louise is a great artist, I admit that she has wonderful talents.

  • Louise Maurel is an artist, a great artist.

  • She is a great artist, and I scarcely ever leave her without feeling appallingly ignorant.

  • And I dreamed of becoming a great artist!

  • You are an honorable man, you are a great artist!


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