Absence Quote by Freya Stark

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

— Randall Jarrell

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

— Rajkumar Hirani

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Quentin Bell

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Don Paterson

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

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

— Alain de Botton

“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel…

— Robert Pinsky

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

— Madeleine L'Engle

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana