Quotes About Critique

The late sculptor Ken Price put it best: "Nothing I can say is going to improve how it looks.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.

No matter who you are or where you're from, we can all look upon the raw, energetic creations of children and agree that they are very shitty artists.

MCWONGALD'S—SHIT LUNCH TURDWOMAN

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about "shit". It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle

The Oscars Ceremony: a great workout for the gag reflex

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

the French educational system is a vast insider-trading crime.

Dites-en du bien, dites-en du mal, mais dites-en quelque chose.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.