Best Good Art Quotations

123 Good Art quotes by 101 unique authors

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is… — Jeff Koons
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain… — Herbert Read
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird,… — Jerry Saltz
All good art is abstract. — John Newman
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond… — Walter Darby Bannard
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. — Walter Darby Bannard
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss… — Walter Darby Bannard
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site. — Wolf Kahn
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try… — Steve Jobs
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views… — Benvenuto Cellini
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. — Alice Neel
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they… — William Faulkner
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and… — C.S. Lewis
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
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. — Mos Def
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual… — Damien Hirst
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But… — Damien Hirst
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative… — Bell Hooks
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like… — Charles de Lint
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it. — Seth MacFarlane

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