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“If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.”

Ifs Needs Artist Talent Criticism Critics

Author:Robert Breault

“I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.”

Giving Use Artist Advice Criticism

Author:Howard Pyle

“An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.”

Artist Answers Fields Judgment Criticism Range Specialists

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.”

Artist Criticism Satisfied Labour Sincere Dislike

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.”

Ifs Mean Artist Voice Wise Heard Criticism Invites

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.”

Children Art Mother Artist Attitude Pride Criticism Reactions Sensitivity Possessive

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.”

Artist Deserve Criticism Sticks

Author:Robert Genn

“Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.”

Should Jobs Artist Source Criticism Productivity Approval Petty Arrested Avoidance Closure Premature Approval Of Others

Author:Robert Genn

“An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.”

Needs Artist Order Demand Criticism Studios Tunes Instruction Sensibility Tune Up

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.”

Knows Needs Self Sometimes Jobs Artist Stuff Process Records Materials Offers Criticism Ears Objectives Sufficient Filling Vary Self Sufficient Hector Filling In

Author:Todd Rundgren

“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”

“All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.”

World Art Life Is Artist Literature Serious Criticism Critical Statements Fantastic Phrases Realistic Constructs Utopian Matthew Art Music

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.”

Men Art Real Matter Artist Novel Produce Criticism Works Of Art Usual

Author:Randall Jarrell

“My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.”

Artist Highest Criticism Contemporary Bitterness

Author:Sidney Lanier

“I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.”

Believe Different Facts Artist I Believe Views Accepting Criticism I Believe In Point Of View Different Points Of View

Author:Paul Emsley