“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900).
“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
Oscar Wilde quotes.
“When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.”
Marc Chagall quotes (Belorussian born French printmaker, Painter and Designer. He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. 1887-1985)
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals”
Kenneth Clark quotes.
“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 proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.”
Harold Rosenberg quotes (particularly known for his insightful contributions to the understanding of 20th-century visual art; photo at right).
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974).
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882).
“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Thomas Hobbes quotes (English Philosopher (Leviathan), 1588-1678).
“The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.”
Stephen Neill quotes.
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882.
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Woody Allen quotes (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, b.1935).
“Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.” Scott Roeben quotes.
