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
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
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
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
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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
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
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“[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 Copy Share Image
Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience.… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others.… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
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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
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
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“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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
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We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else.… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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