Good Art Quotes

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.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They were that type of well-educated people who could recognize a good artist before others, and she was like that. Even if it was against something inside her. Tell me one actress in 1972 in France, except Delphine, at her level, who would love Hôtel Monterey. No one.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

If it's good art, it's good.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.