Zitat des Tages über Kritiker / Critic:
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Everybody is their own critic.
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
