#good art

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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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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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ↗

— William Wiley

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There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. ↗

— Joe Wright

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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. ↗

— David Hockney

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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. ↗

— Mary Schmich

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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. ↗

— Ben Folds

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