About Quote by Jasper Johns

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

— Alain de Botton

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

— Quentin Bell

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

— Randall Jarrell

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

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them,…

— Urs Fischer

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

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

— Peter Clewes

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