25 quotes found
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
“I dont want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”
“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great liter...”
“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”
“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.”
“Those who are critical dont like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”
“A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.”
“Ive often been criticised, but never critically wounded”
“Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.”
“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a di...”
“These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
“No-one ever built a statue of a critic.”
“Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in addition a poet and collector and traveller and puzzle-solver and moralist and seer and free spiri...”
“Unless you are a restaurant critic... nobody cares what you had for lunch.”
“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.”
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye w...”
“Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.”
“Psychoanalysis has suffered the accusation of being unscientific from its very beginnings (Schwartz, 1999). In recent years, the Berkeley literary critic Frederick Crews has renewed the assault on ...”
“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.”
“I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”
