George Pierce Baker Quotes

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

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

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

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.