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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
- 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… — Charles Saatchi
- I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could… — Walter Matthau
- 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
- I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — 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… — 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.… — P.J. O'Rourke