George Steiner Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

  George Steiner

  Art, Reflection, Judgement

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

  George Steiner

  Criticism, Passionate, Honest

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.165, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Men, Hands

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.3, Faber & Faber

• All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

  George Steiner

  Art, Criticism, Phrases

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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