Quotes About Critique

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

You've got to be harsh on yourself because it is the only way you are going to get better by studying those situations where you may have fallen short.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Remember at all times that you're the one who'll be judged by the final product.

Missglückte Lebensgeschichten zu erzählen, anderen die Schuld zuzuschieben, die "Mängel aufzuzeigen", ist allemal leichter, als mühsame, aber erfolgreiche Werdegänge darzustellen, ohne in die Nähe von Kitsch zu geraten.