A Quote by Mel Brooks

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

Mel Brooks

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Artist Birth Came Critic Inevitable

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Mel Brooks
American - Comedian
Born: June 28, 1926

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

Walter J. Phillips

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

J. E. H. MacDonald

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

H. G. Wells

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

Sam Francis

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

H. L. Mencken

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

Bobby Lashley

The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.