Art Quality Quotes

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

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

I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?

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

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.