Creativity Quote by T.F. Hodge

“Is there anyone who has ever written so much as a love letter in which he felt that he had said exactly what he…

— George Orwell

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship…

— Nema Al-Araby

“I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In…

— Rukhsana Khan

“He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly…

— Washington Irving

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”

— 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

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on…

— John Keats

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of…

— Robert Hellenga

“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