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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
— Oscar Wilde
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
The great art of memory is attention ... Inattentive people have always bad memories.
— William Walker Atkinson
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
— Jane Lynch
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
— Robert McKee
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
— Anthony Hopkins
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
— Chaim Potok
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
— Amber Valletta
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.
— Michael Gungor
Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
— Kevin Wilson
What is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.
— Jandy Nelson
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
— Jean Cocteau
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.
— Salvador Dali
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
— Billy Boyd
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
— Jerry Saltz
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign
— John Gardner
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.
— C.S. Lewis
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
— Dennis Hopper
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
— Quentin Bell
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
— Art Buchwald
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
— Neil Gaiman
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
— Frank Frazetta
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
— Sherwood Anderson
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
— Marcel Duchamp
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
— Ed Sheeran
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
— Oscar Wilde
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Tom Stoppard has said that the trouble with bad art is that the artist knows exactly what he's doing.)
— Clive James
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.
— Rebecca West
Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.
— Patrick Hamilton
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
— Paul Cezanne
We ... believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
— Irving Stone
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
— Archibald MacLeish
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
— George Saunders
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
— Anatole Broyard
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
— Friedrich Schiller
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
— Arshile Gorky
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
— Chuck Jones
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's.
— Ron Brackin
An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I'm afraid to say, has been understood.
— Jo Nesbo
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
— Bernard Berenson
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
— Joyce Cary
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
— Thomas Hoving
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
— Ricky Jay
Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.
— Lucien Carr
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
— Marc Chagall
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
— Dennis Potter
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
— Ishmael Reed
People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
— Joe Jackson
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
— Paul Valery
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
— Jerry Saltz
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
— E.F. Schumacher