Polemic Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. — Art Spiegelman
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we… — John Gresham Machen
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. — Ferran Adria
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in… — H. L. Mencken
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at… — Margaret MacMillan
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. — Richard Meier
there's always a polemic in my clothes. — Vivienne Westwood
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,… — Tony Kushner
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another… — Dorianne Laux
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry… — Leon Krier
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good… — David Mamet

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15 authors contributed a total of 15 Polemic Quotes as follows: