Art Quote by George Orwell

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out…

— Mark O'Connell

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

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

— Alain de Botton

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

— Randall Jarrell

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 idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

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

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…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr