Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes... WALTER BAGEHOT Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. WILLA SIBERT CATHER And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. BIBLE In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to c... GEORGE ORWELL What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. OCTAVIO PAZ In Art canvases DRAW answers and withdraw the silence of hidden lamps, illumination. GOITSEMANG SANDRA MVULA 'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any wo... JAMES FENTON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains... CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove... CHRIS PRENTISS It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the le... CLIVE BELL When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. SUN TZU Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. KENNETH TYNAN Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a cri... LEE SIEGEL I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to m... HASKELL WEXLER It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only ... OSCAR WILDE Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. TED SHAWN Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are b... FRANZ LISZT The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. EDWARD HOPPER Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness MUNIA KHAN In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. D... ANTHONY ERVIN The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. CHRIS PRENTISS Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw? BANKSY The only beauty I can own its art...the rest only with my imagination. PANOS TRIVOULIDES Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is th... G.K. CHESTERTON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom... AMY WHITAKER My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. CARL ANDRE All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,... G. K. CHESTERTON All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,... GILBERT K. CHESTERTON After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the... PIET HEIN Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, ... JAMES GURNEY ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us mo... JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial o... STEVEN PINKER Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach... EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach... EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts rais... ERIK PEVERNAGIE One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this ... PIET MONDRIAN The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the ro... THOMAS JEFFERSON Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - on... JERRY SALTZ The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a compli... ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? PAUL GAUGUIN Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, moved our generation in the Samo way, Martin Luther King moved the World... ENRIQUE VEGA I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help read... ANNE STEVENSON It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection. OSCAR WILDE The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an ... LEO TOLSTOY Art is a personal expression of life. Good art clearly represents this and bad art doesn't, therefor... JIM GENOVESE I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan ... BARRY MCGEE Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. E.A. BUCCHIANERI What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ... MARCEL DUCHAMP The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an... MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm an... MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an... MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a... ANDY WARHOL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art...Making money is art and working is art ... ANDY WARHOL Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order... E. M. FORSTER Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order... E.M. FORSTER Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou... E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
... LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i... A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were. HENRI MATISSE The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel... ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco... MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo... CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li... G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN
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NATHAN KRESS My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don'... NATHAN KRESS I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it ca... NATHAN KRESS Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old ... NATHAN KRESS I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments. NATHAN KIRSH Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - ... NATHAN KIRSH All of my businesses are profitable. NATHAN KIRSH I want money; I just don't want that money lying around. NATHAN KIRSH I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed. NATHAN KIRSH My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old info... NATHAN FILLION I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talkin... NATHAN FILLION My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Ye... NATHAN FILLION I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I fi... NATHAN FILLION I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I ... NATHAN FILLION No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thi... NATHAN FILLION I don't expect anybody to know who I am. NATHAN FILLION I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. NATHAN FILLION Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being un... NATHAN FILLION I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.'... NATHAN FILLION You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have... NATHAN FILLION I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing a... NATHAN FILLION I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm... NATHAN FILLION You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a... NATHAN FILLION You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him.... NATHAN FILLION I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references. NATHAN FILLION I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not... NATHAN FILLION I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blin... NATHAN FILLION It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. Whe... NATHAN FILLION You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually ver... NATHAN FILLION I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle&... NATHAN FILLION I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a rea... NATHAN FILLION