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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. -- Jack Levine
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
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? -- John Waters
All art critics are useless or harmful. -- Umberto Boccioni
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
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. -- Paul Cezanne
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. -- Jerry Saltz
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. -- Dave Hickey
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. -- Tim Crouch
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
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. -- Paul Emsley
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
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. -- Todd Haynes
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art. -- Romany Malco
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. -- Yoko Ono
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. -- Tom Stoppard
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. -- Jonathan Raban
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside. -- Rosanna Arquette
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. -- Robertson Davies
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience. -- Ruth Reichl
Art critics are like every other critic. -- Marc Jacobs
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. -- Randall Jarrell
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. -- Mason Cooley
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. -- David Gerrold
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. -- Louise Bogan
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. -- Anthony Burgess
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. -- Luc Tuymans
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. -- Pablo Picasso
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. -- John Steinbeck
Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has. -- Richard F. Thomas
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves. -- Gary Busey
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. -- Robert Genn
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films. -- Agnes Varda
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. -- Robert Adams
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk. -- Brian Sewell
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. -- George Maciunas

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