Art criticism

“One wonders how the literary revisionists and canon cleansers can bear to take the money. Imagine a school of sixteenth century art criticism that spent its time contently jeering at the past for not knowing about perspective.”

“It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.”

“We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donné: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.”

“The most useful criticism in any art [form] is new work done with the same tools [as previous art].”