Quotes by Fuller, Margaret

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. >>

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, i >>

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one ano >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. >>

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing N >>

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife >>

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Fuller, Margaret