Art Quote by Alain de Botton

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

— Oscar Wilde

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

— Don Paterson

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

— Jack Beal

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates,…

— C. S. Lewis

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

— Rajkumar Hirani