Never Touch a Painting When It's Wet and 50 other Ridiculous Art Rules

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There is no such thing as bad art, just as there is no such thing as good art. There is art. To quote renowned French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): “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.”

“There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.” Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), French artist

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“If you can’t tell a good Picasso from a weak one or a good Hirst from a lazy one, your collecting days are going to provide you limited satisfaction.” Charles Saatchi (1943), British advertising executive and art collector “Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. There’s boring conceptual art and there’s boring traditional art. Great art is if you can’t stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.” Damien Hirst (1965), British artist

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