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Critic Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought…
- The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
- Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
- No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.…
- The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate…
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