Charlamagne tha God Quotes

Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical.

The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.