"It is the artist, not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value."
*a person who evaluates works of art, such as novels, films, music, paintings, etc.



I am in agreement with the statement, it’s the artists who have given some of the most valued masterpieces. From my personal point of view, it’s very easy to be a critic and it’s extremely difficult to be an artist.

Art is a field where lot of imagination is needed. An artist has to exercise his brain a lot to express himself in terms of word, painting, music, literature and many more. When he goes beyond the limit of his imagination, then only a quality product come out of arts be it music, literature, films, paintings, etc.

A critic is just an examiner. His job is to look at the end product and give feedback or say figure out the deformities. Some times, it doesn’t seems cogent to me that without realizing the thought process, feelings, expressions, purpose, how a person can criticize an art.

An artist has his own perspective for a particular art, he has his own feelings, emotions, circumstances mixed for a particular art. Will take music as an example. When an artist compose a music, he has various things in mind before composing a music, like what the situation is, what the emotions are, what the lyrics are?. There are so many things an artist has to consider before creating music for a particular movie or show.

But, without understanding the emotions, expressions, circumstances, lyrics a job of critic is to give feedback, be it positive or negative. In general critic job is to criticize or say to find out deformities.

Also these days, it’s a command trend that critics have biased opinion about a particular artist or sometimes they get paid for that art or artist to be criticized. So for me at least it’s a sort of unreliable data. In my view public is the best critic, if music or movie or any painting is appreciated by people then, I think it’s a good work done by artist. If it’s not then, I think some thing is missing, which is not appealing people in general.

Last, I would say we can consider feedback of critics, but it’s not something we should feel bad about it, if feedback given is not aligned with us. Feedback given by critic is just an opinion and can be biased also.