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Good Art Quotes

All good art is an indiscretion.

Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

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

Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.7, Workman Publishing

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.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.168, Pan Macmillan