Advertising Quote by Pauline Kael

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

— Pauline Kael

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Ansel Adams

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

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

— Sol LeWitt

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

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

— David Ogilvy

Everybody's an art critic.

— Judith Martin

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

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

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

— Jerry Saltz

Art critics are like every other critic.

— Marc Jacobs