Books Quote by Pierre Bayard Download Open image ““Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”” — Pierre Bayard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Criticism Reading
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.” — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“[…] a given text may seem fictional or actual depending on the context in which we encounter it. The same is true for oral… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“As may be seen, there is only one sensible piece of advice to give to those who find themselves having to talk to an… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject…” quote by Pierre Bayard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20a/pierre-bayard-29513_fiction_there-exists-around-the-written-world-op_160551.jpg)
![“[…] a given text may seem fictional or actual depending on the context in which we encounter it. The same is true for oral performances. [Thomas] Pavel takes the example of a theatrical scene wherein an actor mimics the gestures of a priest and pretends to bless the audience. There is nothing…” quote by Pierre Bayard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9b/pierre-bayard-29513_real-life_a-given-text-may-seem-fictional-or-actua_588223.jpg)
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