Art Quote by Quentin Bell

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

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

— Alain de Botton

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he…

— Rebecca West

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

— Oscar Wilde

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane

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

— Randall Jarrell

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

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

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

— Don Paterson

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

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel