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“My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.”

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Author:Romany Malco

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

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Author:Leo Steinberg

“The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.”

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Book:Art For Dummies

Source: Art For Dummies

“Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.”

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Book:Herself: An Autobiographical Work

Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work

“Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.”

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Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.”

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Author:Steven Van Zandt

“I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But different mediums have a different relationship with the public. If you're in a performing medium it's hard not to place some weight on whether or not people come to your shows, or whether or not they're enjoying them.”

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Author:Mirah

“Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great season this year." No food critic would get a bad meal and say, "Oh, it was so lovely." It always strikes me as odd when people say, "Why do you write negatively about any art?" I think that everybody has mixed feelings about everything - even Goya. I mean, I look at Rembrandt sometimes and I hear a voice in my head go, "It's pretty brown."”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

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Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

“Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.”

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Author:David Gerrold

“I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

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Author:Paul Cezanne