“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.” ShouldRealProduceCriticismPrisonUniversityPrisonerContinuingVocationHardenedCounterfeitCounterfeit Money Author:Randall Jarrell
“The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.” MenArtRealMatterArtistNovelProduceCriticismWorks Of ArtUsual Author:Randall Jarrell
“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.” MayLongSelfStatesDoneActionFallResultsEffortConsciousnessProduceNormalCriticismContemplationStablePerpetualPrimitiveModerationProgressionEquilibriumUnstableMorbidRight ActionSelf Criticism Author:Herbert Spencer
“We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsMeanArtProduceCreatingArt IsCriticismCookingGood ThingsMissionsArtisticSomething NewCreating Something Author:Ferran Adria
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.” IfsShouldPersonsSoulBeautifulFireProduceColdTasteFairsCriticismWoodsSelfishLocalsSpotsSensualDryElegantSculptureInclinationUmpiresCultivationBeautiful Soul Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.” WayArtFeelingsEyeArtistProduceEmotionalArt IsCriticismCriticsContemporaryRelateWorking ItHistorianOperaSoapGlamourArt HistorySoap OperasContemporary Art Author:Odd Nerdrum