Good art Quotes

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

— Susan Sutherland Isaacs

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

— Masahisa Goi

All good art is an indiscretion.

— Tennessee Williams

I was never a good artist.

— William Hanna

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

— Patti Smith

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

— Grayson Perry

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

I just wanna be a good artist.

— Kat Graham

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

— Bruce Nauman

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

— Thom Yorke

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it…

— Charles Saatchi

“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.”

— Austin Kleon

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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— Service

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

— Charles Saatchi

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

— Alice Neel

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

— Carey Mercer

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

— Ai Weiwei

When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a…

— Trip Lee

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with…

— Charles Fillmore

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.…

— Chris Martin

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what…

— Adam Granduciel

“When I got a networking event, I don’t see a crowd of strangers—I see an admiring audience waiting for me to perform…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience.…

— Michael Chekhov

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good…

— Jerry Saltz

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

“TRACY MARANDER: [Kurt Cobain] was a really good artist. He would draw cartoons with funny sayings. I have this huge picture of…

— Greg Prato

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and…

— Gore Vidal

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever…

— Laozi

“[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am…

— Bernard Leach

Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss.…

— Chantal Akerman

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left…

— Oscar Wilde

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare…

— Toni Morrison

“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