Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly
The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and… — Madonna Ciccone
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from… — Lucy R. Lippard
The Canadian voice is still too rustic. — Charles Olson
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a… — Harold Rosenberg
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and… — Leo Steinberg
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume… — Leo Steinberg
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to… — Jacques Derrida
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films.… — Roger Corman
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like… — Adam Gopnik
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history,… — Philip Guston
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… — Kazimir Malevich
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! — Camille Pissarro
One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it. — Alexander Theroux
It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and… — Michael Vick
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make… — Robert Anton Wilson
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know… — Louise Bourgeois
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that… — John Scott
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their… — Walter J. Phillips
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,… — Walter J. Phillips

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