Quotes About Critique

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

I personally always hated Pop art.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

All great art is a form of complaint

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.