I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody… — John Currin Copy Share Image
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It's hard for new directors to find good tracks because we don't usually get to choose good music by good artists. I… — Romain Gavras Copy Share Image
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well. — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that's what really separates me in the world of fashion is I have a real understanding of actual clothes and… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of Love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image