Art Critic Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne
• The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi
• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art… — Walter Matthau
• It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
• I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen
• Everybody's an art critic. — Judith Martin
• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications,… — Paul Gauguin
• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine
• An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault
• The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault
• There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the… — P.J. O'Rourke
• An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault
• I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz
• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap… — Pablo Picasso
• Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? — John Waters
• Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into… — Edgar Degas

Who Wrote These Art Critic Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Art Critic Quotes as follows:

• 3 Art Critic Quotes by Robert Breault
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Paul Cezanne
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Walter Matthau
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Judith Martin
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Paul Gauguin
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Jerry Saltz
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Edgar Degas
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Charles Saatchi
• 1 Art Critic Quote by G. H. Hardy
• 1 Art Critic Quote by John Olsen
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Jack Levine
• 1 Art Critic Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Art Critic Quote by Pablo Picasso
• 1 Art Critic Quote by John Waters