Quotes About Critique

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.