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Everybody's an art critic. -- Judith Martin
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? -- John Waters
All art critics are useless or harmful. -- Umberto Boccioni
Art critics are like every other critic. -- Marc Jacobs
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. -- Paul Cezanne
Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune. -- Abraham Lincoln
For every good art critic there may be ten great artists. -- Clement Greenberg
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. -- Robert Breault
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. -- Jack Levine
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. -- Robert Breault
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
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing. -- Peter Schjeldahl
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic. -- Lynne Tillman
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
Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art. -- David Toop
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. -- Jerry Saltz
I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. -- Ansel Adams
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. -- Robert Breault
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. -- Oscar Wilde
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. -- Chuck Jones
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. -- Oscar Wilde
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. -- Terry Teachout
A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. -- Walter Benjamin
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. -- Jewel Staite

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