“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.”
Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers
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“As Christians, we must see that just because an artist -even a great artist- portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.”
Francis A. Schaeffer
Art and the Bible: Two Essays
“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.”
Agatha Christie
“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.”
Darnell Lamont Walker
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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“A good artist should laugh often!”
François Place
The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai