“The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.”
Going Steady (1969), Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)
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Pauline Kael72
American film critic 1919–2001Related quotes
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
a comment on Facebook (June 2012) http://www.facebook.com/julia.galef/posts/10100387951009862
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
"Edward Albee : An Interview", in Edward Albee : Planned Wilderness (1980) edited by Patricia De La Fuente, p. 8
Context: I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true. Some of them are so busy trying to mold the public taste according to the limits of their perceptions, and others are so busy reflecting what they consider to be the public taste — that view limited again by their perception. You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid — but most people don't take the trouble.
“There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would not forgive what you do”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Address at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (3 November 1966); published in Gerald R. Ford,Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle <!-- p. 114 -->
1960s
Context: Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: "Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing."
Yasir Qadhi (1975) Pakistani-American preacher and imam
Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917–1971) American mathematician
Leonard Jimmie Savage, (1960) cited in: W.A. Wallis, "Leonard Jimmie Savage 1917-1971," in E Shils (ed.), Remembering the University of Chicago: teachers, scientists, and scholars. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991), 436-451; Quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson (2010).
Letter to Chicago Department before taking up a professorship at the University of Michigan.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…”
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Birth of Tragedy
Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
"Preface to Richard Wagner", p. 13
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)