Good Art Quotes

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

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.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

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.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

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.

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.

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.

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 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.

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.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

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 should be polarizing.

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 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.

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.

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

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

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.

We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

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.

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

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

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

I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

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.

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

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.

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.

Make good art.

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.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

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.

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.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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.