Art Critic Quotes

• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Art, Needs, Critics

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• An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Appreciate, Pieces

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• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, Trying

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• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Criticism, Together

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• An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Canvas

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

  Paul Cezanne

  Motivational, Art, Lying

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• Everybody's an art critic.

  Judith Martin

  Art, Artist, Critics

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Firsts, Assumption

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• All art critics are useless or harmful.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Useless, Critics

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• I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Needs, Critics

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Music, Tired, Player

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• To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Appreciate, Experts

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

  John Olsen

  Art, Thinking, Together

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• Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

  John Waters

  Art, Maids, Critics

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.235, Macmillan

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• It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Art, Law

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• Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Criticism, Gardening

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, May, Very Good

  1991 In the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Art critics are like every other critic.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Critics

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, New York, Critics

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• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  Walter Matthau

  Monday, Art, Couple

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