#good art

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Make good art. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#good #good art #make

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

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I feel that all good art is powerful and simple. ↗

— Aulis Sallinen

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If it's good art, it's good. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. ↗

— Larry Wall

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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

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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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