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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.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

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

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

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

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

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.

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

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.