Quotes About Critics

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Art critics are like every other critic.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

John Ziegler is not a journalist-he is an entertainer. Or maybe it's better to say that he is part of a peculiar, modern, and very popular type of news industry, one that manages to enjoy authority and influence of journalism without the stodgy constraints of fairness, objectivity, and responsibility that make trying to tell the truth such a drag for everyone involved. It is a frightening industry, though not for any of the simple reasons most critics give.

As William (anti-death) Gass observes in Habitations of the world , critics can try to erase or over-define the author into anonimity for all sorts of technical, political, and philosophical reasons, and this 'anonimity' may mean many things, but one thing which it cannot mean is that no one did it .

Natural Method of Physical Training: Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus. Critics' reactions were weird and rather frenzied: everyone loved it, without knowing exactly what it was.

The critics have always been slow to appreciate the true quality of the personal content of Joyce's work - a fact which has led to a serious misunderstanding of the fundamental double-talk inherent in his symbolic language.

He has always held to the principle (which was also favoured by Stefan Zweig) that great artists are disqualified from being objective critics, because they are always thinking of how they would have done it.

at least one conclusion about their effects can be suggested: that a sizeable difference exists between the media effects postulated by the critics of mass culture and those discovered by empirical research. As a result, it would appear that the critics are making unwarranted inferences about the extent, intensity, and harmfulness of media effects; because they dislike media content and popular culture generally, they come to it with the aesthetic standards of high culture

Critici zijn beroepshalve verkeerd-lezers. Het begint er al mee dat lezen natuurlijk nooit een beroep mag worden; je bent ook geen beroepseter of beroepswandelaar. Het is onethisch. Lezen doe je voor je plezier.

The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever."

I have a lot of critics, and that's fine. I think it's better to be polarizing than to be vanilla. I also think people can't question the passion and sincerity that I bring because I truly am the luckiest guy in the world.