George Jean Nathan
  • No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

  • Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  • Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  • To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

  • Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.