Quotes About Critique

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

I come from the '90s where there was rap-rock and I was never a huge fan of it. I loved Rage, I loved some of the other stuff that was going on, but it got really oversaturated and it got kind of cheesy at some point - we can all say that.

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

Any goalkeeper that's going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised - every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them...

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.