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  • To the armchair art-critics nitpicking Annie Liebovitz's technical prowess: CALIBRATE YOUR MONITORS!

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  • The list itself sounds like it was written by one of those elitist art-critics.

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  • By what process she had returned to this creed of reprobation matters little, since such shades of taste are reflected by art-critics ten years before these superior women talk about them.

    Time Regained 2003

  • It was the turbulent untutored crowd that clamored loudest in demanding that the Dewey Arch should be rendered permanent in marble: it was only the artists and the art-critics who were satisfied by the monument in its ephemeral state of frame and plaster.

    The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

  • His deaf, uninstructed soul has never been tampered with by art-critics who know the body well enough of music, but nothing of the living creature within.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

  • No; Time and Varnish are two of the greatest of Old Masters, and their merits and virtues are too often attributed by critics -- I do not of course allude to the professional art-critics -- to the painters of the pictures they have toned and mellowed.

    The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

  • Æsthetik_, a work sadly needed by some of our art-critics?

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • They, however, are unable to find the traces of sorrow, the "tear-stained cheeks" and "eyes that have wept till they can weep no more," so eloquently described by all writers and art-critics of the present day; and so far I agree with them -- the face does not impress me with such depths of woe.

    The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

  • The government at once took military possession of the statue, and appointed a commission of art-critics, antiquaries, and cardinal princes of the church to assess its value and determine the remuneration that must go to the owner of the ground in which it was found.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • Turner replied, expressing the scorn he felt for anonymous attacks, and jestingly hinting that the art-critics of the old Scotch school found their “meal-tub” in danger from his “flour-tub”; but “he never moved in such matters,” so he sent on the MS. to Mr. Munro of Novar, who had bought the picture.

    The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

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