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Letter "T" » The Critic
«The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.»
«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.»
«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»
«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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