Quotes about Critique

History is bunk.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

I always look for the bad. There's plenty to improve on.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism thinking (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, with me or against me, and most of the time you'll be wrong.

Without some deconstruction, everything becomes idolatrous. The prophets were religious deconstructionists.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking