Anatomy Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

— Peter Schjeldahl

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as…

— Richard L. McGuire

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold…

— 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

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting…

— Paul Gauguin

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to…

— Winston Churchill

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially dead. They…

— Alasdair Gray

“Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In…

— Molly Cochran

“How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it…

— Frank Lloyd Wright