Best Good Art Quotations
123 Good Art quotes by 101 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All good art is abstract.
— John Newman
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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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
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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
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
— Alice Neel
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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
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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
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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
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
— Mos Def
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
— Seth MacFarlane
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