Abstract Quote by Robert Indiana

When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo.…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and…

— Jerry Saltz

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions,…

— Diana Trilling

“They found that when ideas could be criticized, the group generated more ideas and they were more creative than when either the person could…

— Peter H. Johnston

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on…

— Scott Adsit

“Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind…

— Christian Rudder

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not…

— Louis Aragon

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them…

— Pete Townshend

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known…

— Henry Flynt

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

— George Edward Moore

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We…

— Kenneth Rexroth