86 quotes found
“It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.”
“Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.”
“His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.”
“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
“The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.”
“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”
“The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.”
“Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.”
“In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.”
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.”
“If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.”
“A critic is a legless man who teaches running.”
“Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.”
“Always bring money along with your complaints.”
“Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.”
“Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
“To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.”
“Any fool can criticize and many of them do.”
“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.”
“I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.”
