Zitat des Tages über Gute Kunst / Good Art:
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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.
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
All good art is an indiscretion.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
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.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
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.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
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.
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
