Quotes About Critique

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

Basicamente los sermones me parecian una terapia de grupo a cargo de un terapeuta incompetente que se remitia a una teoria psicologica inventada por vacas.

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

There are few men under heaven who can love and see the defects, or hate and see the excellence of an object.

and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.

I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.

I believed that a seventeen-minute critique was an act of love, and the truth is that I still do, but the difference between who I was then and who I am now is that now I never assume that anyone I encounter shares my opinion about anything.

For even satire is a form of sympathy.