Good Art Quotes

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

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

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

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

All that matters on the stage is good art.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

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

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

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.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

All good art is abstract.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

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

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

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

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.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

Economy is essential to all good art.

If it's good art, it's good.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

When things get tough... Make good art.

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.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

I think all good art is outsider art.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

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.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

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

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.