“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.” PeopleWayWantWritingWellsArtistHateSoundUniversalI HateImpactCriticsStriveTriggersDictionaryDeep Meaning Author:Damien Hirst
“Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.” MenHas BeensUseAgeStrongSoundWaterHe ManDrinkingCriticsPatientAbundanceFavouriteSoberTopicsAlcoholismApplauseLiquor Book:The Works of Charles Lamb Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.” KnowsEyeBeautifulFormArtistSoundSkyShareCryCreationColorFineShapesMountainPraiseCriticsSmellWideBreatheSnowTragicMuseumsTextureBarkVery BeautifulEyes Wide Open Author:Jan Phillips
“Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.” IdeasShowsWaitingSoundStreetsMinutesWallClaimsCriticsGoing To WorkNothing NewOld Ideas Author:David Letterman
“The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.” ThinkingWayLooksMeanTogetherSoundSpacePoetPagesCriticsObsessedVisualsProseWorking TogetherStrictCuratorMean Words Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.” PoetrySoundPoetMachinesCriticsBeesSewingBumble Bee Author:Mason Cooley
“In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.” FirstsFactsSoundBreakCriticsBreak OutStand AloneAmerican Music Author:Michael Stipe
“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.” ArtIdeasSoulMotherArtistSoundWhiteSilenceStudyMysteryColorBearsLetting GoPagesBirdEmptySticksCriticsLibraryPhilosopherObsessedSignificanceJournalCagesMasterpieceAmbientColor WhiteStudying ArtWhite Birds Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.” ChildrenBookSoulLiteratureSoundWrittenTheoryCriticismAssumingCriticsExceptionChildren's BooksLiterary CriticismChildren's LiteratureLenient Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White