Quotes About Art Critique

#1. It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, "I'm an artist." I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think "artist" is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.

John Waters

#2. You look nervous."
"I'm ... a little nervous."
"You'll be fine. You're pretty. You're alien. You'll trend well.

Chuck Wendig

#3. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

John Waters

#4. Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#5. If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

Max Frisch

#6. For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

David Lyons

#7. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

#8. Art isn't indiscriminate shit-flinging. It's pure communication, crafted with intention and care. Every comedian on every stage is saying what he's saying on purpose. So shouldn't we be welcome to examine that purpose, contextualize it within our culture at large, and critique what we find? The

Lindy West

#9. Education and all sorts of horrible things are going to happen to me.

C.S. Lewis

#10. If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit.

Amina

#11. I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Adrian Edmondson

#12. Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.

Robert Farrar Capon

#13. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

Lucien Carr

#14. Practise make it perfect!

Margaret Mahy

#15. What if I began to believe that the critique isn't just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art better?

Emily P. Freeman

#16. I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Klaus Fuchs

#17. The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

Win Butler

#18. And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

Andrew McCarthy

#19. There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Thomas Merton

#21. The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

Eric Drooker

#22. It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.

Sverker Sorlin

#23. Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben.
One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Martin Luther

#24. A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Rachel Kushner

#25. An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

#26. A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

Isaac Newton