Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I am concerned with social and environmental issues. What rational person is not? But advocacy and art do not mix. Art is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I don't usually let people look at this." "Why not?" Jace looked tousled, as if he'd been asleep himself. "You're a pretty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's hard for new directors to find good tracks because we don't usually get to choose good music by good artists. I… — Romain Gavras Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.” — David Salle Copy Share Image
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?' — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“Convincing myself I was a “good artist” while also knowing how pointless it was to be one.” — Guillaume Morissette Copy Share Image
There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it. — No I.D Copy Share Image
