Good Artist Quotes

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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

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

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

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

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

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

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

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

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

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.

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

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

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

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

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.

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.

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

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

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

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

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

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.

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

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

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

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.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.