#criticism

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

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#constructive-criticism #h-g-mewis #heart #love #obsession

The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors of dangerous lapses into mythical thinking. All were men of critical temper, haters of the decadence of the times and the myths of mauvaise foi. All, in different ways, venerated tradition and had programmes which were at once modern and anti-schismatic. This critical temper was admittedly made to seem consistent with a strong feeling for renovation; the mood was eschatological, but scepticism and a refined traditionalism held in check what threatened to be a bad case of literary primitivism. It was elsewhere that the myths ran riot. ↗

— Frank Kermode

#men

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

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#could #criticism #dislike #france #free

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#criticism #kind #tells #thing #which

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#critics #age