#critic

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#commercially #critically #everything #find #go

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#hypocrisy #new-york #pulitzer-prize #social-criticism #age

Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

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

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