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
I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like… — Glyn Johns 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
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
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Is there anyone who has ever written so much as a love letter in which he felt that he had said exactly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to… — David Foster Wallace 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
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard 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
“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
“We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.” — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form. — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively. — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
My younger daughter really loves makeup. She's quite good artistically. I could see her going into something possibly behind the camera -… — Lori Loughlin Copy Share Image
With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater.… — Charles Bradley 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
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous 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
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician --… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
