#criticism

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#fond #high #instead #now #offering

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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It’s commonplace to nitpick on minor faults. But it's exceptional to correct them through enlargement. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #self-improvement #funny

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.) The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#interpretation #art

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

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