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• I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

  Bill Griffith

  Artist, Problem, Doing Good

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• What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

  R. C. Sproul

  Beautiful, Christian, Religious

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• 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, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

  Peter Biskind

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.235, Macmillan

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. 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. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

  Jim Drain

  Artist, Neanderthals, Imagine

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• There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

  John Boorman

  Religious, Art, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Book, Writing

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• There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Art, Eye, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

  Chris Martin

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Dark, Cpr

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

  Otl Aicher

  Art, Design, Inspire

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• Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

  Rollo May

  Art, Healing, Games

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

  Sally Mann

  Art, Love You, Careers

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• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Resilient, Animation

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• The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Mean, Two

  Interview with M.M. Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. October 22, 2001.

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• Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

  Charles Saatchi

  Jobs, Artist, Nuts

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

  Bruce Nauman

  Teacher, Artist, Difficult

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• Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Writing, Taste

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• Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Way, Tough

  Commencement address at the University of the Arts, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

  Mos Def

  Art, Vocabulary, People

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• There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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