Art Quote by Samuel Ervin Beam

The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a…

— Jonathan Santlofer

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of…

— Lewis Black

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't…

— Gary Busey

When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people…

— Robert Barry

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

— David Toop

“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

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

— Sol LeWitt

Art is to look at not to criticize.

— Anonymous

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of…

— John Currin

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 am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has…

— Georg Baselitz

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