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