Art Quote by H. L. Mencken

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

— Robin Trower

A good artist is a bad artist who never gave up.

— Anonymous

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous

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

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the…

— William Faulkner

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an…

— Greil Marcus

An artist is his own fault.

— John O'Hara

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

— Julia Cameron

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt