Famous quotes by Critics

"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is utopian; and so cynical that the only utopia we can believe in is authoritarian"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"I mean, the interesting thing, I think, would be if something happened like what happened in England, where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

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