Good Artists Quotes

22 quotes by 18 authors

• Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean… — David Hockney
• There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably… — Kathe Kollwitz
• Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man,… — Peter Biskind
• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated,… — William T. Wiley
• I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much… — Joyce Tenneson
• But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by… — Jemima Kirke
• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
• 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
• 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
• Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
• I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all… — Henry Rollins
• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
• Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers
• Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils,… — Francis Bacon
• Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson
• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the… — Jo Nesbo
• Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find… — Martha Beck
• I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That… — Serj Tankian
• I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists. — Jim Drain

Who Wrote These Good Artists Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 22 Good Artists Quotes as follows:

• 2 Good Artists Quotes by Pablo Picasso
• 2 Good Artists Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz
• 2 Good Artists Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Henry Rollins
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Dave Eggers
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Francis Bacon
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Jo Nesbo
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Martha Beck
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Serj Tankian
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Jim Drain
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Walter Isaacson
• 1 Good Artists Quote by David Hockney
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Peter Biskind
• 1 Good Artists Quote by William T. Wiley
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Joyce Tenneson
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Jemima Kirke
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Joshua Reynolds
• 1 Good Artists Quote by Steve Jobs