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It is however skill and technique that in large part makes someone a good artist. Like it or not, art is a physically skilled medium.


There is no such thing as good and bad artists. That’s what makes the decision terrifying.


There definitely is such thing, and claiming otherwise is a weird, very recent trend.


Van Gogh is why there aren’t. There are establishment artists and folk artists and lots of oblique trajectories off that axis but that’s not good and bad.

Or as Harry Truman opined. “If that’s art, I’m a Hottentotte.”




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