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• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  Larry Wall

  Art, Supposed To Be, Artist

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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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• What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

  Iggy Pop

  Scare, Needs, World

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• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Artist, Thinking, Ideas

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Running, Art, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.68, Northwestern University Press

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• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

  Jo Nesbo

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Artist

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.48, Courier Dover Publications

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• It's hard for new directors to find good tracks because we don't usually get to choose good music by good artists. I honestly think music videos will slowly die out. There will always be a few directors who do cool things. But look how many great videos there were in the '90s, and then look at the 2000s. It's depressing.

  Romain Gavras

  Depressing, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

  Tucker Max

  Artist, Four, Want

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• Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

  Dave Eggers

  Artist

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Mean, Firsts

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• Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

  Martha Beck

  Healing, Artist, Darkness

  Martha Beck (2012). “Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Being Yourself, Writing, Mean

  "The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz and Janet Mills, 2009.

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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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• Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Men, Copying

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• But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

  Jemima Kirke

  Art, Real, Philadelphia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.

  Mike Posner

  Fashion, Song, Writing

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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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• It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Stealing, Poor

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• I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

  Stevie Jackson

  Thinking, Artistic, Good Art

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.

  Jeff Koons

  Taken, Artist, Insecurity

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• An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mind, Excellence

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Good Art, Delightful

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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