Quotes About Critique

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

Art critics are like every other critic.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side