Good Art Quotes

All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams

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.
Charles de Lint

Friendship, Work, Good

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Money, Art

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def

Good, Art, Vocabulary

Make good art.
Neil Gaiman

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.
Bell Hooks

Good, Art, Negative

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

Good, Art, Pain

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

Good, Art, Enemy

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound

Good, Art, True

I think good art does come from a dark place.
Rick Springfield

Good, Art, Dark

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.
Damien Hirst

Work, Good, Art

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.
Damien Hirst

Good, Great, Art

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

Good, Art, Political

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

Good, Art, Political

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall

Good, Art, Artist

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

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich

Good, Art, Views

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.
ASAP Rocky

Music, Good, Art

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim

Good, Art, Talk

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace

Good, Art, Makes

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi

Good, Art, Animation

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.
Ben Folds

Good, Art, Someone

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

Good, Art, Point

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Nile Rodgers

Good, Art, Experience

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
Aulis Sallinen

Good, Art, Powerful

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