Top 100 Good Art Quotes
#1. Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
Richard Blanco
#3. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.
Siri Hustvedt
#4. Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
Walter Darby Bannard
#5. The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty
Masahisa Goi
#6. 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.
Chinua Achebe
#7. Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.
Greil Marcus
#8. All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
Michael Leunig
#9. I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.
Ruth Negga
#10. Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.
Sally Mann
#11. We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Billy Al Bengston
#12. There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.
Peter London
#13. Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
Robert Rauschenberg
#14. There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
Stevie Smith
#15. All good art is abstract in its structure.
Paul Strand
#16. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Roman Payne
#17. All that matters on the stage is good art.
Jerzy Jeszke
#19. I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
Marina Abramovic
#20. Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.
Iris Murdoch
#21. Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
Damien Hirst
#22. Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal.
Sherman Alexie
#23. I am concerned with social and environmental issues. What rational person is not? But advocacy and art do not mix. Art is a seduction. Good art invites the reader to think and feel deeply and come to his/her own conclusions.
T.C. Boyle
#24. I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
Chaim Potok
#25. Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def
#26. When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.
Spencer Boldman
#28. With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.
Matt Wagner
#29. Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Nile Rodgers
#30. All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch
#32. I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
David Byrne
#34. There is only good art and mediocre art.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
Michel O'Brien
#36. 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
#37. Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
Gerhard Richter
#38. There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
#39. I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest.
Trip Lee
#40. The awe-inspiring beauty of nature is nothing more than being flabbergasted by our ignorance of it. Good art produces the same effect; and the worst thing an artist can do is to follow the herd, because domesticated art is about as dynamic as a domesticated animal.
Anthony Marais
#41. Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.
Zhang Xiaogang
#42. If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Robert Pinsky
#43. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.
William Bernbach
#44. 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
#45. And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
#46. 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
#47. This is a great turtle, Katie." "James." Millie brings the waffles to the table. "Are you blind?" Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can't appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. "It's a frog." True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood.
Jenny B. Jones
#48. The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
Larry Gagosian
#49. Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Stanley Spencer
#50. All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
W. H. Auden
#51. There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's.
Ron Brackin
#52. The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde
#53. 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
#54. There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
Paul Cezanne
#55. Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
Walter Darby Bannard
#57. Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.
Kathy Lette
#59. Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
Alice Neel
#60. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#61. I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.
Kenneth Oppel
#62. 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
#63. Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
Frederick Busch
#64. Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.
James P Hackett
#65. Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
Otl Aicher
#66. There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
Neil Gaiman
#67. 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
#68. Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
Walter Darby Bannard
#69. All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
Pete Townshend
#70. All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?
Chloe Thurlow
#71. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
#72. I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.
Margaret Keane
#73. Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst
#74. I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#75. The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
Terry Zwigoff
#76. I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.
ASAP Rocky
#77. 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
#78. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.
Lucien Carr
#79. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.
Henry Moore
#80. All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
Roger Ebert
#84. Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Samuel West
#85. Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe ... I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
Derek Walcott
#86. Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#87. Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall
#88. Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Walter Darby Bannard
#89. Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim
#90. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.
Mark Kostabi
#91. I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
Douglas Coupland
#92. 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
#93. As Christians, we must see that just because an artist -even a great artist- portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#94. I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street ... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.
James Nares
#95. Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.
C.S. Lewis
#96. 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
#97. I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
Liz Phair
#98. The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.
Chris Abani
#99. 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.
D.T. Max
#100. I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
Seth MacFarlane
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