Quotes About Critique

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

Thus the privatization process functions to keep people blaming themselves, rather than the institution, for its failure: Though the institution consistently proves itself unsatisfactory, even rotten, it encourages them to believe that somehow their own case will be different.

Just because it was done well, doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better.

Sit in these auditions for three weeks and hear "I Believe I Can Fly" out of tune for the millionth time, YOU try and be nice

Rock is a commercially made mass music and this must be the starting point for its celebration as well as for its dismissal.

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

(To a lady cellist) Madame, you have between your legs the most beautiful instrument known to man, and all you can do is scratch it !

A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,Foot-in-the-grave young man!

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Our epoch does not love itself.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Stevie hated football, and she specifically hated the car commercials that were in football, and she specifically hated the car commercials that were in football, with the meaningless slogans and aggressive masculine messages about how important it was for Americans to drive up rocks and treat every trip to the store or a soccer game like a single-person invasion. Maybe she was overthinking this.

Il realismo, per come lo propongo, è una dottrina critica in due sensi. Nel senso kantiano del giudicare che cosa è reale e che cosa non lo è, e in quello marxiano del trasformare ciò che non è giusto.

I will note in passing that we shared a dislike for both writers and scholars who treat some body, or some body of work, as if they owned it.

All men are pigs and I hope they die and monkeys take over, then things would be way better.