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Critic Quotes by Harold Bloom
- All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
- I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or…
- Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually…
- The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or…
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- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne
- Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you… — Stephen Potter
- Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that… — A.C. Grayling
- The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas… — Walter Benjamin
- I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel
- I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen,… — Mary J. Blige