Art Quote by Paul Shepheard

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

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more,…

— Susan Sontag

“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”

— Alan Dapre

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and…

— Robert Genn

“Art is like a kite with an airplane propeller, OK? Artists are like people who have scuba tanks for lungs, OK? And critics are…

— Jarod Kintz

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

— Mr. Brainwash

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

— Robert Graham

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

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive…

— Thom Mayne