“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.” PeopleMindPerceptionConscienceCritics Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.” IfsMindDoeArtReadingMistakeVirtueJudgingDemandPerceptionErrorsCriticsWorth Reading Author:Lionel Trilling
“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.” ThinkingFirstsBookHumorFunnyBrainDoorsDrugThousandTenPerceptionCriticsMeltingHuxleyDoors Of Perception Author:Bill Bailey
“I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.” ThinkingBelieveMadePurposeI BelievePresidentDecisionAcceptingPerceptionWeaponsDecidedCriticsStrikesBarackChemicalsSyriaPresident Barack ObamaChemical Weapons Author:John F. Kerry
“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.” MomentsBodyFightingEnemyPerceptionCrisisCriticsNovelistsSelf ConsciousSelf DeceptionEssayists Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.” WritingSubjectsPerceptionStandingCriticismCriticsCriticalMaintainingEvaluationStanding Alone Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.” SawsJudgmentPerceptionCriticismCritics Author:Pauline Kael