Art Critic Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Everybody's an art critic.
— Judith Martin
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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
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
— Jack Levine
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An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.
— Robert Breault
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.
— Robert Breault
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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
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An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
— Robert Breault
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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
— Jerry Saltz
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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
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Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
— John Waters
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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: