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What we like and what we don't is definitely significant, and certainly there are things that I don't "get" and don't like but still have artistic value (abstract art?). All the same, I don't think art is entirely subjective. There's got to be some kind of line one can draw and say, this is quality, that isn't. It may be a fuzzy line, but it exists. Can't we agree, for example, that Arthur Conan Doyle was a better writer than Dan Brown?
(I'm not really satisfied with this example. It's so much easier to call people geniuses after they've been dead a hundred years. I'll try and think of a better one.)
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