good art vs bad art

"Good art enriches our humanity, bad art degrades it." I agree with this as long as I get to decide for myself what is good art or bad art for me. I think of the Soviet system in which the government decided what good art (Soviet realism) was and which art (abstract for example) should be outlawed as having no socially acceptable message. I do agree that powerful art resonates with our inner selves, either for good or bad. I am affected by Mozart's Requiem, Dali's Sacrament of the Last Supper, Orwell's 1984 or Vermeer's closeups of daily life. They all make me think about what is significant.