A Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Artist Great Great Art Great Artist Thinker

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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss - Philosopher
September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

Robert Hilburn

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

Colin Wilson

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Temple Grandin

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Ledisi

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

Erskine Caldwell

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Gertrude Stein

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

iO Tillett Wright

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

Temple Grandin

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Christopher Buckley

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Boris Sidis

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.