Quotes About Evaluation

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Sometimes scientific progress forces us to reevaluate the wisdom of the past. Other times, it reinforces it. The

getting things wrong is part of a music critic's life … That's probably the most crucial advice I could give a young critic—plan on getting a lot of things wrong.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

A battalion was apparently a mid-level unit, in size, and his particular battalion had apparently been deeply enmeshed in combat in Iraq. Dannon had gotten good efficiency marks, but Lucas wasn't sure how exactly to evaluate them. In his own bureaucracy, good efficiency marks were subject to interpretation by insiders, and could damn with praise a little too faint.

That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show.

unsure of her first estimate of the

I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good' and 'bad', and limit my vision. If I used the term 'good' on a thing I'd lose my license to inspect it, because there might be bad in it. Don't you see? I want to be able to look at the whole thing.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

How's that for the grapes?

Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.

There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can't properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.