Everybody's an art critic.

Art critics are like every other critic.

— Marc Jacobs

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

— Robert Breault

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art critic is…

— Oscar Wilde

The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a…

— Jonathan Santlofer

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to be a…

— Munira Mirza

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett