Patent/economics/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words patent, economics and/or criticism:

“This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)