Best art-is & good-art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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“I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.”

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“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“All good art is abstract.”

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Author:John Newman

“Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.”

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.”

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“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.”

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Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

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

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Author:Stanley Spencer

“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.”

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Author:Chris Abani

“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”

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Author:John Boorman

“Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.”

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Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“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.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“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.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“All good art is about something deeper than it admits.”

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Book:The Great Movies

Source: The Great Movies

“I think all good art is outsider art.”

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Author:Scott McClanahan

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

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Author:Dan Mangan

“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.”

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Author:James Ransone

“There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”

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Author:John Boorman

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

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Book:Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting

Source: Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting

“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.”

Mean Art Artist Virtue Bears Art Is Witness Can Not Precise Immoral Good Art

Book:Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

“What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

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

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Author:Frederick Busch

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