Leslie Fiedler – Best Quotes

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation and he isn't yet historical.

Experience

When I was 12 years old someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

Leslie Fiedler

When I was 12 years old someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

Cool

I have I admit a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Leslie Fiedler

I have I admit a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Art

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

Leslie Fiedler

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

Hot Quotes

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

I long for the raised voice the howl of rage or love.

I think the pattern of my essays is A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

It's funny to be a critic.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation and he isn't yet historical.

When I was 12 years old someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

I have I admit a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

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