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Jason said, “‘Television is a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done.’ Isn’t that how that saying goes?”
Curtis Sittenfeld • You Think It, I'll Say It: Ten scorching stories of self-deception by the Sunday Times bestselling author
A movie that appeals to the family audience doesn’t really appeal to anyone; it gives neither parents nor children a reason to leave the television set, while children’s movies are alive and well and are known as network programming.
Dave Kehr • Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
One lubricant in criticism is humor. It allows the critic to come at a work obliquely and to write a piece that is itself an entertainment. But the column should be an organic piece of writing, not just a few rabbit punches of wit.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
only major art form where the opinion of a random fourteen-year-old is considered more relevant than the analysis of a sixty-four-year-old scholar.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
- Beware of these two fallacies of photographic appreciation: 1) You like a photograph because you think/have been told that it is good. 2) You think a photograph is good because you like it.
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief: “Ah, hah! so that’s what was wrong with it.” Useful criticism ultimately leaves us with one more puzzle piece for our work.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way
You can’t have both of these things. And it’s what tech people broadly get wrong about many other intersectional dialogues. Either no on... See more
Reggie James • Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack
It is important to be able to sort useful criticism from the other kind.