Top 1200 Art Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

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

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

I am a realistic type of guy. I am my biggest critic.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

I am my biggest critic. I am never satisfied with anything.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.