#critics

For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even) critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken. What motivates so many of us to write in the first place is, to begin with, a great passion for a subject (Tennessee Williams, Balanchine, jazz, the twentieth-century novel, whatever) that we find beautiful; and, then, a kind of corresponding anxiety about the fragility of that beauty. ↗

— Daniel Mendelsohn

#beauty

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. ↗

— Kurt Schwitters

#creativity #criticism #critics #objectivity #art

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#critics #cynical #cynicism #does #get

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ↗

— Malcolm X

#critics #likely #you

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#alive #am #black #brad #brad pitt

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#audience #critics #different #finding #individuals

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.' ↗

— Kevin Smith

#conduct #critics #early #ever #fine

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#assume #being #citizens #contented #critics

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me. ↗

— Frank Richard Stockton

#critics #fight #go #i #i think

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ↗

— Walt Disney

#critics #entertain #i #public #take