Ziggy Marley Quotes

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

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

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

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.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.

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

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.