Parasitic Element

Famous quotes containing the words parasitic and/or element:

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
—Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980)

“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)