Critique Quotes

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

We are amazing individuals.