Quotes About Art

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.

In art, the best is good enough.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

In good writing, words become one with things.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.