Words matter. These are the best Good Art Quotes from famous people such as Larry Gagosian, Mos Def, Amitava Kumar, Liz Phair, Adam Granduciel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The art market is global now, and there’s becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.
The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That’s what makes good art.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
I really think there’s no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you’re female, you’re maybe dealing with different issues.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
If it’s good art, it’s good.
Across the world, wherever good art has been created, that society has been in crisis.
There’s nothing in Hollywood that’s inherently detrimental to good art. I think that’s a fallacy that we’ve created because we frame the work that way too overtly. ‘This is Hollywood.’ ‘This isn’t Hollywood.’ It’s like, ‘No, this is actually all Hollywood.’ People are just framing them differently.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There’s always cycles of good art.
I really think there’s no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you’re female, you’re maybe dealing with different issues.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Good art doesn’t really have an expiration date on it.
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.
I like connecting with people, and that’s what good art is: a point of connection. There’s nothing better, on stage or on film.
I finally got to the point where I decided I don’t care if it’s good art or bad art – it’s what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.
There’s nothing in Hollywood that’s inherently detrimental to good art. I think that’s a fallacy that we’ve created because we frame the work that way too overtly. ‘This is Hollywood.’ ‘This isn’t Hollywood.’ It’s like, ‘No, this is actually all Hollywood.’ People are just framing them differently.
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That’s what I think good art does – it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My argument would be that I don’t think there is much that’s genuinely political art that is good art.
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.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
The art market is global now, and there’s becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
Make good art.
I’m suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it’s, like, ‘Ugh!’ A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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.
I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can’t be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.
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.
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.
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.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Good art should be polarizing.
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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.
Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.
Most good art is left wing. It’s a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That’s what I think good art does – it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.
When I did ’21 Jump Street,’ I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that’s what keeps me going.
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.
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.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don’t. I don’t think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I’d like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don’t. I don’t think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I’d like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
I like connecting with people, and that’s what good art is: a point of connection. There’s nothing better, on stage or on film.
We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play experience it how they will. All we’re doing is saying what we think. I never really wanted to be anyone’s hero.
I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn’t realise that’s not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren’t doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.
Make good art.
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play experience it how they will. All we’re doing is saying what we think. I never really wanted to be anyone’s hero.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.
Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
All good art is an indiscretion.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what’s good and try to imitate it.
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, ‘Oh, yes, I want some of that!’
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Most good art is left wing. It’s a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
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.
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.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.
