Quotes About Judging Art

#1. Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

Ron Brackin

#2. It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

Matthew McConaughey

#3. My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever

Daniel Marques

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?

Larry Correia

#6. In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

F. Sionil Jose

#7. Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

Nick Bantock

#8. One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

#9. O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

Thomas William Parsons

#10. The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

John Dewey

#11. First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

Nicholas Meyer

#12. You
The run
The kiss
The night
New day
New love
New dreams
Its right

Jose N. Harris

#13. Art is more like real estate than stocks. Some Warhols are like studio apartments in midblock buildings with northern exposures, while other Warhols are penthouse properties with 360-degree views. A share of Cisco, however, is always just a share of Cisco. Judging

Sarah Thornton

#14. Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Franz Grillparzer

#15. Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Paul Cezanne

#16. A horrible coma call'd living
So now in this coma call'd living
I view the bright phantoms of beauty;
The false hollow phantoms of beauty

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Ken Danby

#18. It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

Rapsody

#19. 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.

Robert Anton Wilson

#20. I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

Elinor Wylie

#21. It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Igor Stravinsky

#22. Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.

Gerhard Richter

#23. 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

#24. It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

John Frederick Boyes

#25. I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

Olivo Barbieri

#26. Overseas, church, Vatican You at a stand still mannequin

Nicki Minaj

#27. The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.

Judith Orloff

#28. Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Ben Jonson

#29. Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

Pushpa Rana

#30. Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.

Jay Woodman