Jerome Stolnitz

"Critics are the stupid who discuss the wise". [48] -- Tolstoy. And citing Benjamin Lee Whorf, "that language does not give names to pre-existing things or concepts so much as it articulates the world of our experience." [70] "The greatest artists in every medium have been those who have interpreted a significant subject-matter in a significant way". -- T. M. Greene, Scripps [77]. Citing Milton's Satan, "Evil, be thou my good!" [76]

"It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another." --David Hume [86]

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