Art Standards Quotes

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

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

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.