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«The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.»
Author: John Mason Brown (Critic) | Keywords: critic, indolence, prefers, The Critic, Trials
«The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy /yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.»
Author: Nelson Algren (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: entailed, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, The Critic, unworthy, unworthy of
«The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.»
Author: Pauline Kael (Author, Critic) | About: Advertising, Criticism | Keywords: The Critic
«The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.»
Author: Walter Benjamin (Essayist, Theologian, Writer) | Keywords: art critic, betraying, coin, inadequate, in a nutshell, nutshell, peddle, slogans, The Critic
«Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Excellence, Perfection | Keywords: attribute, distinguished, imaginary, known as, The Critic
«Nor in the critic let the man be lost»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: The Critic
«Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Art | Keywords: critic, function, proper, tale, The Critic
«Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Painting | Keywords: art critic, critic, exposing, flat, protecting, surfaces, The Critic
«The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: bug, depositing, deposits, dung, hatch, The Critic, tumble, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling
«Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Temperament | Keywords: exquisitely, impressions, requisite, temperament, The Critic
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