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Criticism 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.
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- 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…
- That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply…
- All criticism is a form of autobiography
- In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice:…
- 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 imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
- They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the…
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