My favorite art story is: Someone submitted a sculpture to have it displayed, I believe it was some kind of head or face on top of a pedestal. Well the sculpture and the pedestal were shipped separately, and through some error were judged as individual pieces. The sculpture was rejected, the pedestal was accepted and displayed.

As an artist…Charlie’s criticism is so on point. The art world (particularly art dealers who usually cannot paint/draw/sculpt all that well themselves) often rejects people with the most technical skill in favor of those who are good at describing the abstract concepts they base their art around. I’ve legit stood in class and lied about my motivations for making a piece because I knew that “I painted this because I thought it would look pretty/nice” would cause me to get a C- at best.

Hate him or love him, his art makes decent jigsaw puzzles

As an artist this is one of the most depressing things. A dot in the wall will make millions in a week yet artists studying for years and working on pieces that take days or weeks will get three likes on Instagram

Bob ross could paint really really well. He only painted simply because his show was more of a tutorial rather than watching him being talented

My watercolor teacher actually hates Bob Ross cause he “makes his trees too big”. My teacher loves everything else Ross does, he just hates the trees so much.

Only Bob Ross was able to give art meaning for me.

my favourite kind of paintings are the ones where there's more than one image. So like that one picture of two girls sitting down in white dresses around a candle in a dark room also looks like a skull if you squint your eyes. They're just interesting to look at. As opposed to squares and scribbles :/

"If rich, dumb people won't buy it, then it isn't a good piece of art" - Modern Artists

No piece of art is greater than “King Kong Balls” by Denis Defrancesco.

I went to an art gallery with an exhibition called "The Death of Art". It was just a room with 6 blank canvasses.

The art of "bullshitting" is huge. People seem to like abstract stuff because of the random stories/explanation one can have. While I was still in school I always got A+ on English and German, that was because my teacher liked interpretations. Especially in topics like analysis of texts and stuff, you just had too bullshit, but nobody seems to understand that.

"That art hurt me. That art sucks. These guys are living a lie, they're living a lie."

The Mona Lisa is basically an elementary school art project,but Damien Hirsts work is immaculate. It takes years of dedication to properly place a butterfly sticker on a wall

“Everybody’s a critic” - Squidward

The amazing thing about Bob Ross was his ability to convey a technique that anyone can learn. If you do what he does as he does it, you get something kinda sorta like what he gets.

you're telling me spamming the pregnant woman emoji on a canvas isn't art?

As someone who’s going to college to be an illustrator but has to take “fine art” classes… the teachers literally admit that they love when people “draw like children” because it’s like reminiscent to like innocence or like their “original way of drawing” or some shit

As an artist who does it for fun, I fully agree with this. Art is fucking confusing sometimes. Why are these scribbles and splatters selling for thousands but artists that are genuinely talented shat on? I don’t know. In my art classes, all we talk about are people like Ed Ruscha and Carmen Herrera and Alexander Calder, who’s works are by the numbers abstractness that make me disassociate (I wish I was kidding), but we never talk about the works of Henry Fuseli or Zdzisław Beksiński, who are my personal favourite artists and inspirations for their dark, dreary tones and obscure meanings. The art community supports nothing but drivel that only a stupid pretentious rich bastard can claim as 'deep' and 'meaningful.'

“art makes no sense”