Quotessence
Home / Topics / Art Criticism Quotes

Art Criticism Quotes

Browse 7 quotes about Art Criticism.

Art Criticism Quotes

“The worst thing you can do to an artist is demand they explain themselves. Stanislavsky said a raised voice has no place in art — nor does cross-examination. An ambiguous space to breathe in is the lifeblood of all creativity. Despite the implied tag of ownership from financial benefactors, the artist must resist becoming a preserved butterfly on a pin for study.”

ArtMysteryInterpretationAmbiguitySubjectivityArtistic FreedomMeaning Of ArtPhilosophy Of ArtArt CriticismCreative Resistance
Author:Stewart Stafford
Create image

“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing that life has to offer. 'If that is possible,' we say to ourselves, 'then everything is possible'; a new phase in the history of human awareness has been opened up, just as it opened up when people first read Dante, or first heard Bach's 48 preludes and fugues, or first learned from Hamlet and King Lear(/I> that the complexities and contradictions of human nature could be spelled out on the stage. This being so, it is a great exasperation to come face to face with new art and not make anything of it. Stared down by something that we don't like, don't understand and can't believe in, we feel personally affronted, as if our identity as reasonably alert and responsive human beings had been called into question. We ought to be having a good time, and we aren't. More than that, an important part of life is being withheld from us; for if any one thing is certain in this world it is that art is there to help us live, and for no other reason.”

ArtHuman NatureIdentityIdentificationModern ArtHamletDanteBachWays Of SeeingArt TheoryKing LearArt CriticismPostmodern Art
Book:The Meanings of Modern Art, Vol. 3: History as Nightmare
Create image

“The arbitrary influences affecting artists' vocabularies are many, and not necessarily all beneficial. The limiting trends of the day, the biting criticism, or the instruction insistent upon getting us to conform against our temperament can affect the work in profound ways, sometimes stalling us for decades.”

CreativityArtistic ExpressionIdeationArtistic TemperamentArtistic VoiceArt CriticismArt PedagogyArt ObstaclesArtistic VocabularyVisual Vocabulary
Book:Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
Create image

“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”

ArtArtistQuotesLiteratureBeautyMusicCreativityPracticeCreativeStudyPaintingPoetDramaConversationCriticismDancePaintActiveTheatreTechniquePainterDancerWriterSculptureCreateAestheticsCritiqueKamandKojouriKamand KojouriPerformanceArtworkSkillArt HistoryArt QuotesActorPerforming ArtsCraftWorksNovelistSongwriterSingerPerformance ArtActressConversePracticingWhat Is ArtSculptorArt CriticismCreative WriterVisual ArtsParticipantSculptApplied Arts
Author:Kamand Kojouri
Create image