Sushant Singh Rajput Quotes

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

There is no best anything in art.

In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

Acting is very subjective and one can't be deterred by what people think of your work.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.