Quotes About Critique

God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

Književno obrazovanje ima mnogo vrlina, ali sustavna misao nije jedna od njih.

At its finest, it has produced work of rare insight and originality. At its least creditable, it represents little more than the foreign affairs department of postmodernism.

The work of art had nothing as vulgar as a social purpose.

Os que perguntam o que haverá de derrubar o capitalismo costumam se esquecer de que, em certo sentido, isso é desnecessário. O capitalismo é perfeitamente capaz de desmoronar sob o peso das próprias contradições sem sequer um microempurrão de seus oponentes

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

That, lad, he said proudly, was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

90 percent of everything is crap.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

How can you judge one film against another?

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

I don't try to try to judge people on performance in one short period of time.

Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.