13. Critics
A BOOK is not worth its paper if it cannot suffer by the process of critical mutilation; writing, and also painting, must be viewed as a whole, but never pigment by pigment or line by line. Every paragraph read separately must call forth some opposite view or else the book is poor stuff. Every inch of the picture closely viewed by itself must bewilder the observer; otherwise, it is a weak, insipid, belaboured canvas, good for nothing. I tell you for your own sake:do not hold a microscope in front of genius!