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Quotes About Art

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
~ Cole Porter
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop
~ Tyra Banks
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
~ Alexander Calder
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
~ Norman Maclean
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~ W. H. Auden
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
~ Bill Hicks
Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
~ Otl Aicher
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
~ Hedy Lamarr
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
~ Robert Graves
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
~ Orson Scott Card
I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
~ Colleen Haskell
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
~ Maurice de Vlaminck
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
~ Pablo Picasso
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
~ Charles Saatchi
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
~ David Hockney
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
~ Francois Truffaut
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
~ Garry Winogrand
A Good artist has less time than ideas.
~ Martin Kippenberger
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
~ Steven Galloway
Consistency is the death of good acting.
~ Michael Shurtleff
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
~ Giuseppe Verdi
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
~ Ralph Bakshi
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
~ Jeffrey Veen
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
~ Michelangelo