Any Quote by Robert Baldwin Ross

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

— Dasha Zhukova

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ansel Adams

Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves…

— Edgar Degas

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom…

— Tom Robbins

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

— Robert Breault

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

“Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.”

— Marcel Duchamp

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

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…

— Lucy R. Lippard