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• 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

  Art, Wall, Labels

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Serious

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• 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

  Teacher, Art, New York

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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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• To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Balance, Age

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  John Ruskin

  Teacher, Money, Artist

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

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• 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

  Art, Loss, Understanding

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• I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

  David Byrne

  Art, Believe, Bullshit

  "If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

  Sally Mann

  Art, Love You, Photograph

  "The Dichotomy of Sally Mann: “The Family and the Land” at the Photographers’ Gallery, London" by Marina Cashdan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2010.

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Soul

  "Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born". Book by Denise G. Shekerjian, 1990.

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• Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.

  Wolf Kahn

  Artist, Order, Challenges

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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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• What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Reading, Mean

  "The Sandman". "Sadness". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1972.

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• 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

  Art, Problem, Authenticity

  Interview with Carlye Archibeque, www.poetix.net.

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• 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

  Art, Technology, Understanding

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Wish

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Propaganda rarely makes good art.

  Susan Sutherland Isaacs

  Art, Propaganda

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• The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, Becoming, Consensus

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• 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

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Trying, Want

  "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Art, What Matters, Culture

  "Ask the Author Live: Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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