Quotes About Criticism

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.