Sounds like classical art is like pop music then? Guess what would happen if people could choose between pop and "quality" (whatever that means) music? Oh right

Sounds like classical art is like pop music then? Guess what would happen if people could choose between pop and "quality" (whatever that means) music? Oh right, just look at charts. Since when is the quality of art correlated with its popularity? Plus there's probably a lot of selection bias going on here, i.e. the bad classical art has been forgotten (or lost!) whereas the same hasn't yet happened with modern art.