Famous quotes by Critics

"The Academy is paranoid about its image"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around, traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"All over the web, there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have"

Walter Pater, Critic

"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake has most"

Walter Pater, Critic

"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it, to a life of constant and eager observation"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass"

Walter Pater, Critic

"For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"

Walter Pater, Critic

"And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object"

Walter Pater, Critic

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects"

Walter Pater, Critic

"The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved"

Walter Pater, Critic

"In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike"

Walter Pater, Critic

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