I think good art does come from a dark place.
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine...
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be...
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.
The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.
Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refu...
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.
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.