Art Quote by Arthur Machen

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“A literary critic should have no emotions except those immediately provoked by a work of art.”

— T S Eliot

“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I had neither,…

— Arthur Machen

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What if I began to believe that the critique isn’t just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art…

— Emily P. Freeman

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

“According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all…

— Dorothy M. Kennedy