Good Art Quotes

• A Good artist has less time than ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, Artist

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• All good art is an indiscretion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Art Is

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Best Job, Small Jobs

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Bears

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

  Mary Schmich

  Art, Views, Angle

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• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Enemy, Atheism

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 14

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• All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Simple, Speak

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.24, Penguin

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• When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Should, When Things Get Tough

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• To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

  Jasper Johns

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Purpose

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• When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Art, Husband

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• I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Art, Political, Failing

  "A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Artist, Small Jobs

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artist, Self

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• My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

  Thom Yorke

  Art, Thinking, Political

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Art, Eye

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• Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

  Mark Twain

  Weather, Hands, Cold

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.5, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think that's what really separates me in the world of fashion is I have a real understanding of actual clothes and how they work and how they should fit and a reasonably good artistic version of photography that kind of captures that. I think that was really kind of the best combination.

  Scott Schuman

  Photography, Fashion, Real

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

  Liz Phair

  Art, Pain, Mean

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