The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdepende — Jeremy Hawthorn, Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express a — Ron Brackin

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and achi — H.G. Mewis

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had — Terry Eagleton

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were b — Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations o — Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjectio — Rose A. Zimbardo

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself, — Bayard Rustin

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very deg — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot, Mr Gilfil's Love Story

Discard negative comments, criticism and influences. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.

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