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“After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”

World Mean Ends Wanted Poetry Creation Poet Reader Criticism Critics Everyday Determine Prose Interpreter

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”

“I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.”

People Ifs Helping Use Theory Critics Come Up Scary Helping People

Author:Tim LaHaye

“[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.”

Ifs Should Done Changed Critics Scary Pledge Allegiance Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:Antonin Scalia

“It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.”

Men Said Important Remember Social Streets He Man Critics Philosopher Cherish They Said Dissidents

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.”

Want Giving Pay Wife Critics My Wife Noses Ems Bugs

Author:Tim McGraw

“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.”

People Ifs Want Years Looks Whole Games Mistake Opinion Successful Critics Bitter Being Successful Controversial Diploma Oddities Top 10 Bitter People

Author:Paul Stanley

“It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.”

Hard Perspective Disease Critics Laziness

Author:Michael Haneke

“I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film is always what a critic writes, and the fun of a film or the emotion of a film is what the audience feels.”

Thinking Knows Feels Writing Film Fun Emotion Audience Messages Critics Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Steve Martin

“Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.”

People Knows Matter Shows Watches Written Tvs Mass Critics Critical Bread Live By Cables Written Word Critical Mass Being Authentic

Author:Walton Goggins

“Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.”

Judging Critics

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Critics? I love every bone in their heads.”

Critics Bones

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.”

Knows States Age Lasts Life Is Spirit United United States Clear Constitution Mere Critics Lawyer Vehicle Documents Prescriptions Constitution Of The United States

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.”

Has Beens Seems Worst Crime Bears Criticism Critics Burden Gods Will Drifting Congressman Humorists

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition

“I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.”

House Judging Independence Critics Copies Declaration Declaration Of Independence Framed

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert some judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of critic.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”

Poetry Sound Poet Machines Critics Bees Sewing Bumble Bee

Author:Mason Cooley

“Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.”

Art Artist Criticism Critics Committed

Author:Mason Cooley

“The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.”

Culture Criticism Critics Prey

Author:Mason Cooley

“A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.”

Important Use Criticism Critics Quotations

Author:Mason Cooley

“When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.”

Humans Facts Support Rights Economic Critics Profit Disappear Motive Enterprise Inherent Shallow Private Enterprise Profit Motive

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.”

Writing Criticism Critics Critique

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

Author:Horace Walpole

“Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.”

Art Artist Fighting Born Church Judgment Art Is Sitting Critics Seats Respectable Parish Kneeling

Book:Herself: An Autobiographical Work

Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work

“Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?”

Criticism Shining Critics Absurd Burning Sarcasm Sarcastic Torches

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.”

States Christian Names Religious Policy Position Aspect Critics Approved

Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

“Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.”

Christian Social Religious Effort Issues Slavery Historical Critics Contemporary Participation Social Issues

Author:H. Wayne House

“But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.”

May Important Book Hands Important Things Profound Critics Second Hand

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.”

Way War Happens Today Film Careers Built Negative Critics Hips Hated Reviews Squares Film Critics

Author:John Waters

“There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.”

Knows Way Matter Done Stuff Pay Attention Audience Written Negative Critics

Author:Eddie Murphy

“Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.”

Giving Giving Up Critics Foolish Tonight Don't Give Up Small Minds

Author:Tori Amos

“In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.”

Firsts Facts Sound Break Critics Break Out Stand Alone American Music

Author:Michael Stipe

“You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.”

People Hurt Seeing Critics It Really Hurts

Author:Charlie Day

“It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.”

World Hard Whole Fronts Critics Whole World Vulnerable

Author:Pattie Mallette

“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.”

Thinking Want Mother Fashion Tough Critics

Author:Eva Mendes

“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

World Important Done Social Bits Term Pieces Land Honor Waste Criticism Critics Various Contemporary Relief Insignificant Grumbling Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.”

Needs Art Values Levels Cases Teacher Pieces Written Painting Fine Critics Painter Instruction Composer Superficial Explaining Ambiguity Nonverbal

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.”

Needs War Country States Remember Lying Strong United United States Heard Modern Military Dangerous Policy Cold Threat Critics Defense Our Country Efficient Senators Cold War Hawks

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Book Character Forget Wonder Love You Materials Losing Critics Track Hearing Publish Trance Enamored Censoring

Author:Allegra Goodman

“I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.”

Ifs Trying Able Quality Worry Good Things Critics Karma Slap Quality Time Keel

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.”

Persons Black White Deals Judgment Critics Creator Don't Trust Black Person Black Lives

Book:Five for five: the films of Spike Lee

Source: Five for five: the films of Spike Lee

“Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.”

Doe Art God Artist Illusion Critics Paint Painter

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.”

Said Shows Principles Break Broken Months Habit Slave Critics Smoking Now And Then Showing Off

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.”

People I Can Young Certain Millions Critics Ruined

Author:Timothy Leary

“I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.”

Way Littles Boys Critics Architecture Bad Boy

Author:James Polshek

“One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.”

Thinking Wells Looks Said President Too Much Beats Critics President Bush John Kerry Thinking Too Much

Author:Jay Leno

“Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.”

Wonder Reader Critics Bothered Glorify Humiliate Deconstruction

Author:Mason Cooley

“If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.”

Ifs Literature Critics Orderly American Literature Allan Poe

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.”

Literature Judgment Critics Productions

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself”

Conscious Wine Property Critics Score Interaction Representation Describing Rating

Author:Jamie Goode

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