Good art Quotes · Page 4

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Bruce Nauman

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

— Walter Darby Bannard

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Charles Saatchi

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“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

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

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a…

— Jeff Koons

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

— Robert Henri

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody…

— John Currin

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

“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do…

— Jarod Kintz

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I…

— Robert Hilburn

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something…

— Chris Kraus

“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the…

— David Bayles

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…

— Brigid Brophy

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than…

— Norman Tebbit

“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

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead…

— Thomas More

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

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

— Charles Saatchi

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Ai Weiwei

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

— Samuel West

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

— Neil Gaiman

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

— Liz Phair

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

— Dan Mangan

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

— Chinua Achebe

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is…

— Chaim Potok

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.”

— Daniel Coyle

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

— Jake Tapper

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

— Robert Barry

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

— Rebecca Miller

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

— John Morrison