Famous quotes by Critics

"With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch"

Walter Pater, Critic

"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece"

Walter Pater, Critic

"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The movies that are made more thoughtfully, or made, or with more ambition, often get just get drowned out by the noise"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Class is often invisible in America, in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

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