Good Art Quotes - Page 4

• The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

  Charles Fillmore

  Art, Character, Imagination

  Charles Fillmore (2017). “The complete works Charles Fillmore”, p.1391, Youcanprint

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• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Men, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

  Laozi

  Artist, Intuition, Want

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• Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Art, Knowing, Know Yourself

  Source: www.thebeijinger.com

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• The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others. I am sure the internet is having a profound impact on art, particularly those who have grown up with it, but making good art will remain as difficult (and as easy) as it ever was. Having a lasting impact may become more not less difficult.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Impact, People

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

  Matt Wagner

  Art, Happens

  Source: about-creativity.com

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• A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Hands, Zippers

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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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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• 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

  Art, Sick, Letters

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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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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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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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• I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my home that I own, surrounded by friends and family and controlling my environment completely.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Art, Home, Thinking

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

  James Ransone

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Mean

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• It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

  Edward Lear

  Jobs, Artist, Long

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• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

  Michelangelo

  Art, Perfection, Overcoming

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• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

  Charles Saatchi

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.59

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• I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.

  Janice Tanton

  Children, Artist, Differences

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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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• There is only good art and mediocre art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Mediocre

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• All good art is abstract in its structure.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Abstract, Structure

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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 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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