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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

-Ambrose Bierce

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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

-Paul Cezanne

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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

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

-Jean Michel Basquiat

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

-Walter Pater

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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

-Kenneth Tynan

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

-Susan Sontag

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I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

-Alex Kapranos

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It's funny to be a critic.

-Leslie Fiedler

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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

-Mason Cooley

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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

-Robert Morgan

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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

-Aaron Sanchez

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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

-Nat King Cole

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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

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I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

-Thomas Friedman

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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

-Henry Van Dyke

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More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

-Harold Bloom

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

-David Herbert Lawrence

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

-Virginia Woolf

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

-Theodore Roosevelt

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If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

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