#good art

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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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? ↗

— Liz Phair

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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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All good art is an indiscretion. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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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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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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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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If it's good art, it's good. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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