Critics Art Quotes

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

Art critics are like every other critic. — Marc Jacobs

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

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

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. — Tim Crouch

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter. — Ron Brackin

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. — Dave Hickey

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers - just to upset the critics. — Bob Ross

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess

Those who lack the guts to create critic. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf. — Garth Brooks

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Everybody's an art critic. — Judith Martin

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. — Mel Brooks

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. — Mason Cooley

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

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

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's. — Ron Brackin

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. — Kurt Schwitters

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. — Randall Jarrell

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? — John Waters

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

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. — Louise Bogan

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

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

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. — David Gerrold

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb