Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. >>

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steep >>

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people a >>

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. >>

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others bu >>

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Benjamin, Walter