Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.