When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
