Quotes About Analysis

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Everybody's an art critic.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

Art critics are like every other critic.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.