Art Quote by Terry Teachout

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

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways:…

— Viktor Shklovsky

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

— Katherine Paterson

One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste…

— Leo Steinberg

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world…

— Joseph Addison

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

— David Toop

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

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he…

— Lionel Trilling

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor…

— George Edward Woodberry

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as…

— Clive James