Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.