The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism
VálgameTo be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things.
Robert M. FowlerHem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.
Ernest HemingwayImitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare critic
The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare critic
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare critic
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
Criss JamiTags: self-control judgment conscience critic father discernment son motives relation grandfather
What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.
Northrop FryeTags: life power literature language critic teacher participate
Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.
Karl KrausTags: life politics truth equality society critic inequality criticism critical
Între cititor si critic este deosebirea dintre un amator de ierbare si un botanis. Primul colecționează plante, în speranța obscură și rareori împlinită, de a descoperi o lege a vieții vegetale. Al doilea vede în varietatea ierbarului doar mijlocul de a verifica legea de la care a pornit, adică o concepție asupa naturii.
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