372 quotes found
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take...”
“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.”
“Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of ...”
“Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the...”
“At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pu...”
“...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.”
“If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.”
“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”
“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library or other, and treats in heathenish fashion people at whose feet he ough...”
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They...”
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.”
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do ...”
“For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to...”
“...chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.”
“Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice.”
