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Bad art
«One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
| Keywords:
American art, Bad art, Bad movie, cleverly, displaying, interpreted, present day, proving, put into practice, secrete, secreted, secretes, secreting, wrapped
«No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals»
Author: Kenneth Clark
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
abstract, abstract art, arouse, Bad art, erotic, faintest, nude, nudes, spectator, The Spectator, vestige
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Danger,
Death and dying,
Fear,
Life,
Society,
Violence
| Keywords:
Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
Bad art, bad person, deliver, Deliver Me, Good Book, Not sure, They Live
«Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Art,
Life
| Keywords:
Bad art, imitate, imitated, imitates, television
«Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Movies,
Sports
| Keywords:
Bad art, Bad movie, history of art, History of the, History of the world, karate, Martial, movies
«Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
a great deal, Bad art, deal, great deal, worse
«Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
Bad art, crown, Laurel, laurels, popularity, The Crown
«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
«Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Architecture,
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, jealous, mistress, provider, providers
