Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Educate Critic Critic Educate Criticism Educate Educate Critic Educate Public
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
