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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Everything now has to be fully accountable,” Peter Plagens, a New York painter and art critic, told the online magazine Salon in… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
“Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz 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
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb 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
