Quotes About Critique

I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized populations in the name of morality

Occidental que je suis dans l'âme, confortablement installé sur cinquante années de prospérité écoulées depuis la fin de la guerre (avec un généreux plan Marshall pour commencer), j'ai tendance à regarder ces bizarreries sans indulgence. Qu'attend-on pour réparer la chaussée, les routes, pour réparer en général ? (p. 32)

On sait à peu près pourquoi une Å"uvre est mauvaise. Mais bien moins pourquoi elle est bonne.

Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

The ability to pass judgment without work or research has got to be the coolest consumer good since the invention of philosophy.

Now, whom are we here to conspire against?' 'Poetry,' I said. 'Namely, Romeo's poetry.' 'Is it that bad?

This is what you Americans do all day, is it? Sit about confessing things. What a rotten influence you are!

Even if Aristotle was not an atheist in the sense that he directly and openly attacked the divine . . . one could say that he was one in a broader sense, because his ideas on divinity indirectly tend to undermine it and destroy it.

Queer theory is] the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which like other unwed mothers has been very loath to acknowledge the father.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.