Graham on art

If good art is art that interests its audience, then when you talk about art being good, you also have to say for what audience. So is it meaningless to talk about art simply being good or bad? No, because one audience is the set of all possible humans. I think that's the audience people are implicitly talking about when they say a work of art is good: they mean it would engage any human.

...it's good art if it consistently affects humans in a certain way.
...Since there's such a thing as good art, there's also such a thing as good taste, which is the ability to recognize it.

So the most important consequence of realizing there can be good art is that it frees artists to try to make it.