Art Quote by Robertson Davies

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as…

— Clive James

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be…

— Susan Sontag

“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

“For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain,…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he…

— Lionel Trilling