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
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
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault 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
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
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
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine 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
“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 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
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
