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“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”

Artist Fantasy Periods Disease Critics Brands Hips Sixty Cult Transforming Curator

Author:Jerry Saltz

“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”

Should Reader Criticism Should Have Critics Stomach

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.”

Ifs World Should Stills Fall Fiction Style Morality Method Victim Critics Insight Suspects Imperfect Favour Assured Mistrust Scribes

Author:Will Self

“It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.”

Mind Book Ideas Helping Might Audience Critics Providing Seminars

Author:Will Self

“Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.”

People Book Sometimes Jobs Film Opinion Serious Critics Scratches Gadgets Generalities

Author:Will Self

“The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.”

Thinking World Kind Certain Stuff Fiction Greatness Opposites Critics British Contemporary Odd Novelists Symbiosis

Author:Will Self

“I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.”

Thinking Should Writing Children Book Seems Kids Audience Critics Suitable

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

Art Painting Critics Surface Weather Flats Exposing Cold Weather Painting Art Painting And Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”

Book Funny Drink Humorous Criticism Critics Witty Beer Sarcasm Writing A Book Book Reading Book Covers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

Ifs I Can Two Reason Sex Women Inspiring Hollywood Critics Refuse Obstacles Gender Resistance Cinema Filmmaker Movie Can't Change Famous Women Cinematography Movie Director

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.”

Critics Israel Supporter Defenders Ardent Zionist

Author:Theodore Bikel

“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”

Book Critics Drunk Good Book Good Writers Bartender Bartending

Author:Jim Bishop

“Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”

Government Might Father Citizens Empathy Assuming Critics Active Expected Apathy Founding Serfs

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.”

Want Play Fields Prove Critics Shoulders Chips Prove Them Wrong

Author:Hope Solo

“Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”

Certain Courses Failure Judgment Criticism Critics Radical Sensibility Entitled Lapses

Author:Susan Sontag

“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”

Should Mean Art Real Shows Criticism Function Aim Critics Works Of Art Commentary Analogies It Is What It Is

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'”

Knows Wells Ends Careers Band Kissing Critics Kiss Me Overhead Vulture Down Time

Author:Paul Stanley

“Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.”

Giving Writing Play Literature Criticism Critics Inches

Author:John Steinbeck

“Time is the only critic without ambition.”

Time Ambition Judgment Critics Time Management

Author:John Steinbeck

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

World Giving Art America Belief Imagination Modern Objects Skills Criticism Critics My Imagination Modern World Baskets Modern Art Picnics Craftsmanship Contemporary Art Picnic Baskets

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'”

Writing Said Play Wish Behinds Fronts Critics Reviews Bad Reviews

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Be a doer and not a critic.”

Critics Doers

Author:Tony Blair

“Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.”

Thinking Way Want Company Capitalism Sells Critics Consumers Controlled Lowest

Author:James Surowiecki

“Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.”

Ifs Shows Dies Criticism Abuse Critics Emotional Abuse Irritated

Author:Tacitus

“You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'”

Should Writing Looks Ideas Critics Impress Impressive Brilliant Ideas

Author:Amy Tan

“If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.”

Ifs Film Critics Makers Qualified Film Critics

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.”

Thinking Matter Happens Deals Accepting No Matter What Critics

Author:Tim Tebow

“Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.”

Knows Mind Body Havens Taught Critics Cricket Mind And Body

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”

People Men Doe Wisdom Hate Enemy Friends Criticism Intelligent Blame Critics Workers Sensible Pulling Competitors Merchants

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

Ifs Interesting Saws Walking Critics Swim Iron Lady Thames

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.”

Wells Film Winning Millions Office Critics Boxes Perceive Awards Box Office

Author:Charlize Theron

“I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'”

Men Needs I Can Facts Fun Worst Okay Critics Making Changes Messed Up

Author:Mary J. Blige

“I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.”

Knows Inspirational Decision Know How Criticism Entrepreneur Critics

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.”

Writing Literature Opinion Criticism Critics Editors

Author:Mark Twain

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”

Writing Fiction Sea Criticism Critics Shore Censorship Hug Sailing Writing Fiction

Author:John Updike

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.”

Writing Song Fire Sitting Concern Down And Critics Mess Breathing Necks Hesitation Composing Sitting Down Breathing Fire

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.”

Writing Children Literature Cases Adults Criticism Critics Mature Publishing

Author:Alice Walker

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”

“Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.”

Knows May Black Forget Numbers Critics Forgotten Flight Clock Budgets Alarms Alarm Clocks Where We Came

Author:J. C. Watts

“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”

Inspirational Art Facts Seems Motivational Actors Acting Spring Respect Critics Performing Performing Arts Layman Lack Of Respect

Author:Simone Weil

“When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.”

Firsts Hard Character Choices Hair Personality Aspect Critics Albums Backgrounds Colour Scrutiny

Author:Florence Welch

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

World Writing Poetry Passion Written Equal Critics Editors Editing Writing A Book Editing And Writing

Author:H. G. Wells

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

Art Artist Women Audience Argument Criticism Critics Works Of Art

Book:The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West

Source: The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West

“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”

Knows Wells Criticism Weak Critics Glitter Weak Points Criticism Of Others

Book:The letters of Edith Wharton

Source: The letters of Edith Wharton

“I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.”

Two Three Five Four Cry Critics Spite

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.”

Play Fall Saws Comedy Critics Starting Reviews Curtains

Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

Artist Criticism Critics Educate

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.”

Country States Seems Law Critics Offense Arizona Jurisdiction

Author:George Will

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