My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.
“One good Art's better than a thousand bad.”
Fab. LVII: Of the Fox and the Cat
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Quote from People, 27 September 1976
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980
“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Žádné pocínání není samo o sobe dohré ani zlé. Teprve jeho místo v rádu ciní je dobrým ci zlým.
The Joke (1967)
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
Чувства, самые разнообразные, очень сильные и очень слабые, очень значительные и очень ничтожные, очень дурные и очень хорошие, если только они заражают читателя, зрителя, слушателя, составляют предмет искусства.
What is Art? (1897)
“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
