Famous quotes containing the words candide and/or reception:
“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)