#critic

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else? ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#because #criticism #else #everyone #first

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. ↗

— Frank Black

#critics #definition #job #their #truth

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#heart #i #much #somehow #took

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#another #any #because #come #could

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#criticism #nothing #say

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.) The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#interpretation #art

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#no reason #reason #regret #their #views

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#admiration #ahead #criticism #get #get married

The only critic is a full house. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#full #house #only