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“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.”

Ifs Heart Spirit Rich Wind Fit Taste Criticism Communicate Excellent Generous Champagne Sour Muddy Sparkling Vapid Colic

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.”

Ifs Knows Taste Criticism Lays Eggs

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.”

May Taste Truth Is Judgment Criticism Errors Valuable Satirical Benefactors Rectify

Book:The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

Author:Horace Walpole

“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.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.”

Understanding Moral Objects Taste Criticism Sentiments

Book:And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

Source: And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

“It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people have so much respect for me and believe in me because of my musical accomplishments. And I could also antagonize people against me, because everyone has his own taste. We all make music, people can choose from that what they like. Every musician likes his own music the best, man. I don't want to attack that. I don't mind criticism, I can handle it, but most people can't".”

People Ifs Men Want Mind Believe I Can Would Be Artist Opinion Taste Musician Concerned Criticism Musical Harm Likes Handle Accomplishment Believe In Me

Author:Fela Kuti

“I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.”

Feels Years Mean Book Country Done Kids Jobs Culture Reading Understanding Teach Teaching Havens Needed Taste Criticism Who We Are Taste In Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.”

Today Social Class Taste Members Criticism Entertainment Consumers Goods Considering Fast Food Upper Class Lower Class Plentiful

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature