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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. — Jonathan Swift

All bad art is the result of good intentions. — Oscar Wilde

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing. — Ben Jonson

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. — Kenneth Myers

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art. — Leo Steinberg

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum. — R. B. Kitaj

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. — Charles Bukowski

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness. — Gautama Buddha

Deep down everyone is really good. It's just that sometimes people forget that they are that good. — Art Hochberg

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad. — Amber Valletta

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good. — Shigeru Miyamoto

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. — George Santayana

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me! — Romero Britto

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. — Salvador Dali

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living ... — Dione Lucas

The secret of good magic is another magic. — Amit Kalantri

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question. — James Turrell

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All good art is abstract. — John Newman

In every Art it is good to have a master.
[In every art it is good to have a master.] — George Herbert

There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question. — Rebecca Solnit

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. — Ruth Negga

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. — Seth Godin

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri

All good art is an indiscretion. — Tennessee Williams

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. — Oscar Wilde

All good art is abstract in its structure. — Paul Strand

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. — Walter Darby Bannard

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. — K. Lee Lerner

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

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place. — Keanu Reeves

Good taste is the death of art — Truman Capote

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs. — Robert Genn

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

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. — Charles Baudelaire

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter

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

Picture yourself sitting in the middle of a junkyard, and there is light all around you. That's a good one. — Art Hochberg

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. — E.A. Bucchianeri

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. — Pauline Kael

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good. — Sol LeWitt

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't. — Terri Windling

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. — Jonathan Swift

There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's. — Ron Brackin

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself. — Zhang Xiaogang

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. — Chick Hearn

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. — Neil Gaiman

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. — Tracey Emin

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. — Jerry Saltz

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. — David Seabury

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Art is good but it isn't the best. — Jose Bergamin

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. — John Wayne

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Good business is the best art of all. — Andy Warhol

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol

Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude. — Criss Jami

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not. — Ziggy Marley

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. — Soren Kierkegaard

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder. — Kathy Lette

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing. — Invader

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. — Andrew Loomis

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art. — Ha Jin

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. — Patton Oswalt

Life is art and art is life. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders. — Andy Paula

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid. — Luc Sante

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. — George Saunders

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. — Mark Twain

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. — W. H. Auden

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

Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad. — Lucien Carr

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. — Seneca The Younger

Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening. — Art Hochberg

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art — Andy Warhol

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. — Rebecca Miller

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith