#critic

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#give #inch #play #write

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. ↗

— Criss Jami

#compelling #consideration #constructive-criticism #demean #demeaning

Then don't criticize if you can't offer a solution," said Dorian. "It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations - then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#solutions #love

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art ↗

— David Toop

#critics #art

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J. ↗

— Ian Gittins

#criticism #ll-cool-j #music-humor #paul-simon #simon-and-garfunkel

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#judgmental #motivation #motivational

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#artist #criticism #art

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#allegory #criticism #art

We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first four is consistent with it, while the two later are entirely in agreement with it. In the first group, the adventure which fits into the scheme in the Letter is the first of all, which is a significant fact. If Spenser were somewhat hastily reconstructing his scheme he would naturally test its coherence with what he had already written in the first Book and perhaps re-write certain passages. He may have forgotten the details of Books II and III or Raleigh's urgency may have left no time for the adjustment of the details. These discrepancies are all connected with the twelve days' Feast and Gloriana's appointment of the knights, and this part may well have been suggested by Raleigh. He probably intended the poem not only to make Spenser's fortune at court but also to reinstate himself in the Queen's favour. In the circumstances he would wish to make the reference to the Queen as clear and as flattering as possible. ↗

— Janet Spens

#nature