Art Critics Quotes

“I retain, but suspend, my personal taste to deal with the panoply of the art I see. I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?” I may come around; I may not. Failing that, I wonder, What must the people who like this be like? Anthropology.”
― Peter Schjeldahl

“Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.”
― Ron Brackin

“Kelly wears her hair swept back in an odd 1940s pompadour that one writer assumed must be her “auxiliary brain.”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

“There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's.”
― Ron Brackin