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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

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.