Quotes About Evaluation

Chess is the art of analysis.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

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.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

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

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

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

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.

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

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Everybody's an art critic.

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

Art critics are like every other critic.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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

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

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

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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.

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.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.