What makes art "good"? Options

[Call911Quick]

If I go to a museum, and see a ton of paintings, how do I know which ones are better? I mean, I realize they all take skill to do, but if I just eye-ball it, none of them looking amazing, if you know what I mean.

If how-close-it-is-to-real-life is a determinant, then there are some REALLY good ones are out there.

If it's I-don't-get-it-what's-it-mean-so-many-colors.... etc.

Like my artist friend would go "OMG THAT'S SO PRO!!!!" and I'm staring at it thinking it looks just like every other painting.

[NoSex]

"Good" art doesn't exist - only art. Whatever is "good" or "bad" is merely an invention of the human mind. Our particular and individual tastes and sentiments reflect off of the canvas and seep into us. If that art isn't penetrating you - sexually, violently, in harmony, out of tune, broken and sideways - it probably isn't that "good." Art should be a message, a picture in time, a moment, vision, or heart taken from the world, or another place, and put to celluloid or stamped on a canvas or sketched on paper or typed on the writer machine or blown the f**k up. The artist should bleed and cry and break something, unless he thinks it's more important not to - no passion and intent can be a meaningful message in of itself. There are so many angles, perspectives, and directions, so many dynamics, that "good" art is outside of the human vocabulary, the human vernacular - it's something that can only be charged and measured in the barometer of the heart, the intellect, and the spirit - it's something felt.

"Good" art f**ks you.