Good art Quotes · Page 5

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

— Jasper Johns

“We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.”

— Tori Amos

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

— Frederick Busch

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

— Amitava Kumar

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

— Oscar Wilde

Once you are accepted as a star, as a good artiste, nothing else matters.

— Urmila Matondkar

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

— Matt Wagner

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

— Jim Drain

“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that…

— Lucien Carr

“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern,…

— Siri Hustvedt

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely…

— James P Hackett

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling.…

— Damien Hirst

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

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to…

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I…

— John Waters

I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my…

— James Vincent McMorrow

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically…

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

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

I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their…

— Michael C. McMillen

“Dear Producers, Something is radiating deep within me and it must be transmitted or I will implode and the world will suffer…

— Dave Eggers

“The discovery of useful forms is precious. Once found, they should never be abandoned for trivial reasons. It’s easy to imagine today’s…

— David Bayles

“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say…

— Bryan Magee

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

— Glenda Bailey

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

— Cyril Connolly

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

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

— Grimes

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

— Gregory of Nyssa

“Picasso said “good artists copy but great artists steal.”

— Sean Patrick

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

— Edward Ruscha

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

“Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.”

— Neil Gaiman

I want to be a good person first and a good artist second.

— Kelsea Ballerini

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

— Michelangelo

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

— Roger Rees

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

— Marina Abramovic

“Convincing myself I was a “good artist” while also knowing how pointless it was to be one.”

— Guillaume Morissette

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane