Quotes About Subjectivity

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

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

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

grievance does not make for great art.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

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

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

There is no best anything in art.

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.