Art Quote by Michael Kimmelman

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

— Alain de Botton

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

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

— Randall Jarrell

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to…

— Dave Brubeck

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

— Robert Smithson

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

— Ezra Pound

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

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

— Don Paterson