Art Quote by Dennis Potter Download Open image “Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.” — Dennis Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Definitions Definitions Bad Just Just Letting Letting Letting Definitions
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
