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Letter "A" » art critic
«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
artistic, art critic, contemplating, critic, detach, detaching, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary work, specific, The Critic, work of art
«Actually, my artistic knowledge is so tiny it could fit into the brain of an art critic.»
«Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Criticism,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
art critic, dimensions, extend, Literary Art, literary critic, longs
«More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Respect
| Keywords:
art critic, considers, layman, laymen, performing, performing arts, valid
«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
«Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
art critic, critics, failed, literature
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alliance, ancients, art critic, chisels, chisel in, combined, exposing, formerly, patrons, protecting, surfaces
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyzing, art critic, botanical, classify, critic, critical, criticizing, ignores, imitation, impertinence, in the first place, jargon, jargon of, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, mostly, pseudoscientific, reasoned, The Critic, touchstone, touchstones, twaddle, twiddle, twiddling, work of art
«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
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, appeal, appreciate, artist, art critic, critic, employing, employs, forms, manner, method, modes, our critics, painter, painting, personality, poet, pupil, technique, The Art of Reasoning, The Great, The Technique, the Techniques
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