Art and Literature

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky, in Art and Literature

Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers.

T. S. Eliot, in Art and Literature