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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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• Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Thinking, Creating

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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Feelings, Immature

  "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

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• The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Art, Wall, Doe

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Jobs, Men

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• A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Artist, Immature, Aliens

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, People

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

  Laozi

  Change, Artist, Intuition

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

  Jessica Hische

  Creativity, Artist, Player

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• Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Artist, Good Artist

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Character, Compassion

  Michael Chekhov, Mala Powers (2013). “To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting”, p.90, Routledge

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• All good art is abstract in its structure.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Abstract, Structure

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• An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

  Carey Mercer

  Art, Block, Acceptance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

  Gore Vidal

  Wise, Art, Love Is

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

  Austin Kleon

  Artist, Creative, Originals

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.7, Workman Publishing

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• Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

  Kathy Lette

  Art, Beholder, Wallets

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• Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: 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. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

  Brigid Brophy

  Art, Play, May

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• Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

  Frederick Busch

  Dance, Art, Prayer

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• Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Smell, Language

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• 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

  Art, Struggle, Inspiration

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Serious

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