372 quotes found
“I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear fo...”
“Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of a...”
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.”
“Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art”
“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.”
“[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!”
“You dont create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.”
“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of t...”
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because Ive become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurt...”
“Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international law. They wa...”
“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.”
“One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized”
“...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives ...”
“The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak! -- It is not the world, it is only the despicable part of it -- only the il...”
“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.”
“If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.”
“To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.”
“The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.”
