Famous Quotes | An art whose medium is language...
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
- Thomas Mann
Attribution: Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, critic. speech, January 22, 1929, Prussian Academy of Art, Berlin, repr. In Essays of Three Decades (1942). “Lessing,” (first published 1930, trans. 1933).
Categories: Author, Critic, Language
