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Good art is what you like that I also like.
Bad art is what you don’t like that I also don’t like.
However…
Bad art is what you like that I don’t like.
Good art is what I like, whether or not you like it.
Bad art is what I don’t like that the critics like, so I go along with it and pretend to like it.
Good art is what the critics don’t like that I like, but I don’t say anything because, you know, the critics must be right and I must have missed something. Who am I to criticize the criticizers?
Good art is what gets you a good grade in art class, no matter how bad it is.
Bad art is what gets you a bad grade in art class, no matter how good it is.
Good art is what I see when I am ready to see it.
Bad art is what may be good but I’m seeing it before I’m ready to see it.
Good art is, I know what I like, and this is it.
Bad art is, What in the world came over that artist?
Good art is my taste.
Bad art is not my taste.
Bad art is art that can’t possibly be good because that very successful and filthy-rich artist produced it.
Good art is what that starving but passionately suffering artist produced—so it has to be good, you know?
Good art must never be judged objectively. I might discard most of it if I did.
Bad art must never be judged objectively. I might come to appreciate it if I did.
Bad art is necessary, in order to have good art.
Good art is necessary, in order to have bad art.
Bad art is sometimes the most enduring art.
Good art sometimes lasts about as long as ducktail haircuts
(c) 2012 A.D. by Jim Reed