In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.
I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.
Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
