#critics

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. ↗

— Alex Cox

#critics #down #evidence #genius #goes

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #critic #critics #i #i remember

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them. ↗

— Zane Grey

#burned #cannot #critics #crucify #guess

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#bewildering #critics #invent #knows #others

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#fans #going #hate #just #laugh

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#day #film #i #like #make

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. ↗

— Ted Allen

#away #critics #doing #get #great

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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