Life Celebration Quotes
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
George Jean Nathan
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman
Paul Cezanne
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Unknown
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
