Quotes About Art

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

Good taste is always bad.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

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.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

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

All that matters on the stage is good art.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.