Good Art Quotes - Page 7

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• I think all good art is outsider art.

  Scott McClanahan

  Art, Thinking, Outsiders

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

  Emily Saliers

  Art, Rain, Book

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

  David Hockney

  Hard Work, Thinking, Artist

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

  Big Sean

  Long, Judging, Too Much

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Distance

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." But it's rubbish. Absolute rubbish. A huge amount of your work is done when you're not at your desk. Knotty problems that you need your unconscious to solve. So it can be helpful to walk away and focus on other things and it can be helpful to be a bit harassed in your daily life, to be hungry for time to write.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Baby, Art, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's hard for new directors to find good tracks because we don't usually get to choose good music by good artists. I honestly think music videos will slowly die out. There will always be a few directors who do cool things. But look how many great videos there were in the '90s, and then look at the 2000s. It's depressing.

  Romain Gavras

  Depressing, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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 performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Intellectual

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

  Dan Mangan

  Art, Subtle, Ifs

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

  Lee Klein

  Art, Writing, Online

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I'm just a fan of all music. My family owned a record shop so I grew up taking it all in on a daily basis. I'm not a person that needs to listen to just five good artists at one point. I love whatever is dope. We all can feel what's great.

  Ab-Soul

  Artist, Dope, Fans

  Source: truelaurels.tumblr.com

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  Plato

  Errors, Matter, Poet

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Artist, Thinking, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• And I do think that good art - the art that tends to last - is that art that hits human beings on several different levels at once because everybody's different. Some people approach art through their emotions, others through their head, and the art that can appeal to all of those levels is more likely to reach more people. Having more people see the work doesn't necessarily mean better art but it stands a better chance of lasting.

  Laura Belem

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Art, Games, Museums

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

  Iggy Pop

  Scare, Needs, World

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• When things get tough... Make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Tough, When Things Get Tough

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• 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 run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Running, Art, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.68, Northwestern University Press

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• 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, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Peculiar, Up To You

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