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Critic Quotes by Mason Cooley
- Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
- Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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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
- Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne
- 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
- 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
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde
- Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you… — Stephen Potter
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas… — Walter Benjamin