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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“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.”

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Book:Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling

Source: Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling

“A Good artist has less time than ideas.”

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Author:Martin Kippenberger

“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

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Author:Jasper Johns

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

Source: Jackson Pollock

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

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Author:Laozi

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

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Author:Billy Corgan

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

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Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“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.”

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Author:David Hockney

“The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.”

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Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

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

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Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

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Author:Edgar Degas

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.”

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Author:Laozi

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

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Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Hische

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

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Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”

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Book:My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

Source: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

“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.”

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Author:Jackson Pollock

“There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.”

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Author:Amanda Palmer

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”

“A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.”

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Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

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

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Book:pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

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

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Author:Bruce Nauman

“What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare”

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Author:Iggy Pop

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.”

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Author:William T. Wiley

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

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Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.”

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Author:Joyce Tenneson

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

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Author:Larry Wall

“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.”

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Author:Jemima Kirke

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