#critic

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#art-criticism #modern-art #women #art

Avant-garde is French for bullshit ↗

— John Lennon

#definitions #art

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#creation #creativity #criticism #art

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#art

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#artist #critic #flawless #truth #art

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#critic #flaw #god #prayer #religion

Critical art is an art that aims to produce a new perception of the world, and therefore to create a commitment to its transformation. This schema, very simple in appearance, is actually the conjunction of three processes: first, the production of a sensory form of 'strangeness'; second, the development of an awareness of the reason for that strangeness and third, a mobilization of individuals as a result of that awareness. ↗

— Jacques Rancière

#critical-art #dissensus #ethical-immediacy #representational-mediation #art

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #art #art-history #artists #arts

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did. ↗

— Chris Ware

#criticism #art

Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness. ↗

— Cloe Madanes

#herstory #mft #art