Art Quote by Laurence Gartel

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

— Julia Cameron

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he…

— Rebecca West

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a…

— Marc Chagall

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you…

— David Bowie

That's like the worst - having the ability to do something and not doing it is, I think, the worst thing in the world…

— John Dolmayan

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to…

— Alice Merton

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

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

It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something,…

— Mos Def

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson