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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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• There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

  Charles Saatchi

  Artist, Sharks, Oil

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

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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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• 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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• 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

  Art, Different, Places You Go

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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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• 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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• Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

  Kathy Lette

  Art, Beholder, Wallets

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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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• 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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• 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

  Wise, Art, Mean

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

  Masahisa Goi

  Beauty, Art, Spirit

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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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• 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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• You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

  Alice Walker

  Artist, People, May

  Source: www.blackflix.com

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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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• 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

  Jesus, Art, Faithful

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Serious

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  Thomas More

  Art, War, Crooks

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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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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• I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

  John Currin

  Artist, Ideas, Excited

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Art, Home, Museums

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• Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

  Stanley Spencer

  Art, Knows, Do You Know

  "Times Thievish Progress". Book by John Rothenstein, 1970.

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