Quotes About Opinion

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Everybody's an art critic.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

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.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially 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.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.