Quotes About Critique

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

the left is now characterized by a weird form of self-flagellation.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.

You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.

Let's not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.

Somebody has made those disgusting marshmallowy Rice Krispie things

This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections.

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

bullshit french post-war rationalizing

Tortellini was one of the only things you could eat there and that tasted passable if one's demands for flavor were kept at a minimum. I often told Elaine that her food would have been turned down by the lost party on the Donner Pass.

It's all schlock," the impresario railed. "Chazerei for pubescent sub-mentals.

Do you understand? You've been praying to a crucified chimpanzee all these years. Your Son of Man is not a god-he's just an ape on a cross!

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.