Art Criticism Quotes
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
— Hannah Gadsby
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
— Susan Sontag
We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.
— Carrie Brownstein
Norman Rockwell saved my life.
— Jane Allen Petrick
Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
— Philippe Nericault Destouches
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.
— Cloe Madanes
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
— Naguib Mahfouz
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
— Charles Baudelaire
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— Tacita Dean
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
— Ken Livingstone
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
— Neil Patrick Harris
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
All great art is praise.
— John Ruskin
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
— G.K. Chesterton
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto learn to draw? — Banksy
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
— Albert Camus
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.
— Lee Hammond
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstratedit is an art. — Henri Frederic Amiel
With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
— Peter Schjeldahl
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Most art is just surface noise.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I just wanted to do something important.
— Norman Rockwell
Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.
— Alan Dapre
The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
— Henry James
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
— Harold Rosenberg
What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?
— Anis Shivani
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
— George Jean Nathan
Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign
— John Gardner
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
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
— Rene Magritte
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
— Helen Vendler
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
— Brenda Ueland
There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet.
— Ross Wetzsteon
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
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
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
— Kurt Schwitters
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Art is the expression that the soul makes without having to explain itself, nor regard the criticism of others.Reed Abbitt Moore — Reed Abbitt Moore
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
— Harry S. Truman