Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
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- No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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- Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.