Bad Art Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. — Karen Armstrong
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or… — Marc Chagall
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. — Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an… — Patti Smith
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art. — Jane Lynch
I canâ€™t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. — Damien Hirst
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written… — George Bernard Shaw
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. Itâ€™s also the root of a lot of bad art. — Michael Gungor
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. — Dennis Potter
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy.… — Norman Tebbit
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art. — Chaim Potok
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that… — Joe Wright
But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by… — Jemima Kirke
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad… — Minnie Maddern Fiske

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