Quotes About Judgment

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Everybody's an art critic.

Art critics are like every other critic.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

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

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

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

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

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

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

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

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

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.