The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
“The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two… — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It was a truth that Leo Tolstoy declaimed a century or so ago: our response to art has the agency to do… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
“Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I can remember meeting of a Sunday night Charles Whibley, Kenneth Grahame, author of 'The Golden Age,' Barry Pain, now a well… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
