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Art Critic Quotes

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
Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I had neither, I made an experiment or two, and was able to inform the readers of the paper that if you walked briskly past the picture, winking both eyes as fast as possible, you really got a sort of impression of movement and activity, of ships and boats coming into the harbour and sailing out of it, of sails lowered and hoisted, of an uncertain background, now obscured,... Arthur Machen
Jean-Michel Basquiat quote: "I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody..."
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
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. George Orwell
John Waters quote: "Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?"
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? John Waters
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
Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work, and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day. How's that? Joss Whedon
Paul Cezanne quote: "Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation."
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. Paul Cezanne
Jack Levine quote: "It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum..."
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. Jack Levine
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Harry S. Truman quote: "Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. Harry S. Truman
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. George Jean Nathan
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. Henry James
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

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