Best Good Artist Quotes

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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

I’m just a fan of all music. My family owned a record shop so I grew up taking it all in on a daily basis. I’m not a person that needs to listen to just five good artists at one point. I love whatever is dope. We all can feel what’s great.

I think any good artist – and I’m not saying that I am one – takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

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.

It’s a poor artist who borrows–a good artist steals.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we’re working all the time.

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.

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

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

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

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

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

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.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

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.

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

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.

There’s something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs… After a while everything you do is just wonderful… then you slide back. If you’re a good artist you’re going to go down. And then it’s up to you.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art – perfection

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.

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.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it’s there for a reason, and that’s to make the world a better place.

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

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.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

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.

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.

I had thrown my body in for art… I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp’s 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

Every good painter paints what he is.

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.