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Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs — Art Wolfe

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

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

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

It's good to vandalize one's own work. — John P. Sousa

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

Rita Haywood gave good face. — Madonna Ciccone

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters. — Seth Godin

It's better to be a good person than a famous person. — Jenny Holzer

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

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter

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

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom. — Art Hochberg

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

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

Sometimes you may feel "I don't fit in here." Good. — Art Hochberg

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

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside. — Beatrice Warde

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at. — Brian Selznick

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. — Clarice Lispector

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. — Miyamoto Musashi

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer

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

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

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

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz

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

We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls — Frank Wynne

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

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books. — Glenn Danzig

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

A good artist should laugh often! — Francois Place

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

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall. — Warren Zevon

Just tell yourself you're good. That'll take care of any idea that you have about not being good enough. — Art Hochberg

Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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

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

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. — Aristotle.

Don't take pride to prayer. Take prayer to pride and eliminate it. It's not a good friend, actually. — Art Hochberg

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

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. — Fiore Dei Liberi

I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy. — Art Smith

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney

But perhaps art isn't supposed to make you feel good, but just to make you feel. Does it cure the numb? I don't know. — Tarryn Fisher

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. — Jerry Saltz

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

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. — Janet Fitch

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

Propaganda rarely makes good art. — Susan Sutherland Isaacs

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

Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

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

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

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

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

A good artist makes imaginations real! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco! — Joy Baer

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse

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

Do what Thou wilt! Yes, only do
What seemeth good to Thee;
Thou art so loving, wise, and true,
It must be best for me. — Frances Ridley Havergal

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

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

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin