Quotes About Critique

The saggy armchair of clichés.

ni acerca de un libro si es útil, sino si está bien escrito. Las

He examinado -dice- a los poetas y los miro como personas cuyo talento impone a las demás y a ellas mismas, que se las dan de sabias, a las que se tiene por tales, cuando tienen menos de eso que de ninguna otra cosa. De los poetas -continúa Sócrates- he

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

People who say the system works work for the system.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

Never ask people about your work.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.