Criticism Quotes

“Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.”

“The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood.”

“It's easy to be a critic. It's much harder to be a creator.”

“Trent Reznor was very specific about what he wanted. He wanted to trim the fat, and a lot of my parts were considered fat.”

“This country is a petrified forest of legality.”

“Although Darwin’s mechanism—natural selection working on variation—might explain many things, I do not believe it explains molecular life.”

“Criticism is the art of judging the qualities and values of an aesthetic object, whether in literature or the fine arts.”

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

“They will never be as good as The Stooges.”

“Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.”

“Hollywood is run by men who are guessing what people want.”

“Being in Limp Bizkit is like being in the sixth grade. You're a popular kid in school. You're not held to any standards of being a good person.”

“There's just a lot of music that sounds like it's computer-generated, created by people who don't know how to play an instrument.”

“The liberal media... they're trying to destroy us.”

“He couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo.”

“The old boy network is still very much in place.”

“The Catholic Church is the biggest cult in history.”

“Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.”

“The purple-cocoon of The Hague must be broken.”

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”