Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow. The… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
If you beat someone with a good name, of course some people are going to say he's past his prime, he's washed… — Anthony Macias Copy Share Image
I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
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