The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that…

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I stopped making films to look after animals.

— Brigitte Bardot

“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal.…

— Peter Høeg

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do…

— David Attenborough

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over.…

— Joseph Pilates

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out…

— Paul Theroux

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

— Carroll Shelby

You look at them, the animals in the wild, and they stay the same. They have their rules which I cannot decipher, and there's…

— Michal Rovner

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

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

— Robert Breault

Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed…

— Nicholas Serota

“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive…

— Aristotle

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