Criticism and Response
The organization has also been accused by some ex-students and cult researchers for operating as a cult. Aesthetic Realism supporters have stated that the technique of the people attempting to discredit Aesthetic Realism is “1) find out what characteristics a cult is supposed to have, 2) then say Aesthetic Realism has them (though of course it doesn’t).”
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Famous quotes containing the words criticism and/or response:
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don’t make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.”
—Russell Hoban (b. 1925)