Letter to Santa, 'please don't bring me a concrete tree with paper leaves, I know I've been naughty but I don't deserve that'.

My comment on winners of the Turner Prize has always been "the Emperors new clothes" seems somebody has taken it literally.

The Art world is a closed shop to sell rubbish ! I went to a Garden Centre where there was an exhibition of aweful paintings being sold at stupid prices and was nearly attacked by a middle aged over dressed woman when I commented that my 8 year old grandaughter had more talent. I found out that she was the talentless artist who had spent about five minutes "painting" c**p.

The Tuner prize is a closed shop and only for the elitist few...it should be open to amateur artists who do it for pleasure...next year I think I shall enter a pile of manure and call it "nature a study in brown"

But is it art?......................not by any stretch of the imagination and anyone that thinks it is must live in a very strange world. Seems to me that Mr Turner has money to burn if he paid for that prize.

The thing I dislike about the Turner prize is not so much the rubbish that wins it year after year, but the fact that it is a closed shop, it should be open to everyone. Only the closed shop art scholl ok yah brigade get a look in. If I ever win the lottery I'll launch my own art prize and offer a bigger prize than £25,000 which will be open to everyone and I guarantee that paint will be involved in the winner. Turner would be disgusted.

after seeing what was on display its a wonder the streaker didnt win the 1st prize

the world has gone completely mad if this is art.

If Duchamps urinal is 'art', all must be ,so this guy in a tutu is art.
If all things can be seen as art we then have to decide how 'good' that art is.
When my little one was 4 we went to Tate Britain to see the offerings from the supposed best Young British Artists, When asked about the various work in the room little one looked down and said that they had done things like this in school and it was boring, and asked if we can go and see some real art now?
Out of the mouths of children........
A trip to The National Gallery brought on a totally different response,
For some reason my child liked the Beheading of Lady Jane Grey.
Oh the look on the face this year when seeing the Matisse L'escargot at the Tate Mordern!
The subject having just been covered at school.
That art being a thing that brought all the good emotions to the face of my growing one.
Like some more modern artists, Matisse used people to arrange the material for him, only thing he was dying not creating factories to produce art in his name.