Max Muller Quotes

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

There is no best anything in art.