Quotes About Criticism

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

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

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

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

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.