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

  Iggy Pop

  Scare, Needs, World

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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, Good Art

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

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

  Laozi

  Artist, Intuition, Want

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Stealing, Poor

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

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Hands, Zippers

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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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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• 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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