“ I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. Kamand Kojouri
“ Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times. Margaret Atwood
“ The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about t… Colm Toibin
“ Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, The Cookiepants Hy… Connie Willis
“ It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a v… Michelle Richmond
“ There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this. Randall Jarrell
“ A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judg… Barbara Ehrenreich
“ When I took over as chair of the fashion program, I was horrified that only the faculty member was allowed to speak in a critique. I'm talking about perfectly nurturing teachers. But the rule was ther… Tim Gunn
“ There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much ab… Joe Bageant
“ I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three s… Roman Payne
“ He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the ma… Remy de Gourmont
“ [Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets … ea… Knut Wicksell
“ We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will sl… Henry A. Giroux
“ Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ ...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing… Immanuel Kant
“ Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings forth entirely out of itself cannot be… Immanuel Kant
“ A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
