Art Quote by John Steinbeck

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

— Paul Bocuse

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

— Anonymous

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are…

— slawomir mrozek