Happiness Quote by Jack Kroll

Kroll isn’t praising talent; he’s trying to name a rupture. Calling the subject an “inexplicable gift of nature” is deliberately anti-managerial language, a rebuke to the tidy myths of training, branding, and “genius” as a career strategy. The phrase makes artistry feel less like merit and more like weather: sudden, unrepeatable, indifferent to our plans. That’s the first move.

Then he escalates from aesthetics to physiology. “Leaps over boundaries” and “changes our nervous systems” drags art out of the museum and into the body, arguing that the highest cultural impact is not appreciation but rewiring. It’s a critic’s way of saying: you didn’t just like this; you were altered. Kroll’s subtext is that criticism’s job isn’t only to evaluate craft but to register when the public’s sensorium shifts, when new rhythms, images, or gestures become thinkable because someone forced the issue.

“Creates a new language” is the crucial claim. He’s not talking about literal words; he’s talking about a grammar of feeling that other artists and audiences can suddenly speak. That’s why “transmits new kinds of joy” lands: joy here is not simple pleasure, it’s discovery, the shock of recognizing a sensation you didn’t know you were missing. “Startled senses and spirits” captures the paradox: the gift arrives as an ambush. In context, this is canon-making with urgency, the critic marking an artist as a before-and-after moment, not just a standout in a crowded field.