Browsing Topic Best Good Art Quotes

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.

I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.

I don’t judge too much as long as it’s good. As long as it’s good music and good artistry, I’m with it.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.

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.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

There’s no correct path to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

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

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.

Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She’s from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They were that type of well-educated people who could recognize a good artist before others, and she was like that. Even if it was against something inside her. Tell me one actress in 1972 in France, except Delphine, at her level, who would love Hôtel Monterey. No one.

If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don’t actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others – a received pronunciation.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

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.

Good art doesn’t really have an expiration date on it. That’s something to be happy about, if you’re making art.

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.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever’s going on.

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

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.

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.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

I don’t think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you’re doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain – that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

Good art is a form of prayer. It’s a way to say what is not sayable.