The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do… — James Nares Copy Share Image
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that lasts. I think that's what any good art is. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t hold on to things, to neuroses. People-artists-think they have to hold on to their neuroses, their pains, or they won’t… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief… — david foster wallace Copy Share Image
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you… — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself. — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes.” — Brandon Sanderson 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
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing. — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
I love Narcy, he's such a good artist. I know him personally, he's a friend. He's of my generation - he puts… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
