Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.
Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.
Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.
