Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
When I was 5, 'American Bandstand' had a lot of good artists on there, man. That's when I really started falling in… — Scarface Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“TRACY MARANDER: [Kurt Cobain] was a really good artist. He would draw cartoons with funny sayings. I have this huge picture of… — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image