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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 3124545" data-attributes="member: 10397">I dont see how anyone could possibly think that, let alone know it. How someone could believe that the time and thought put into a work of art can be meaningless just because someone doesnt like it, or it doesnt fit certain criteria is beyond me for several reasons.Some people are going to like it, but others are not, so it cant be objectively good or bad on that basis, unless your willing to accept that some peoples opinions are inherently superior to other peoples. Are you?Likewise, any set of criteria put down to measure something as subjective as art is basically going to be a set of opinions, so we run into the same issue. Did you not mean this when you said it?  Its about both those things, and several others besides. But for the moment, note this...to me "criticism" is different from degredation. Its also different from assertions that the entirety of a work is without value or merit because of someone's opinion, or the opinions of someone else that they respect for whatever reasons.</blockquote>