What is it with critics pronouncing this or that artist the greatest of a generation? Laziness, that's what!

Critics Critics get paid to make judgments. And I’m fine with that

It says the critic has reached a plateau of self-importance on which he wants to go around conferring cultural knighthoods on artist-commoners who’ve managed to rise above their making-clever-baubles-for-the-rich stations to become, almost, big thinkers.
· The Greatest, Whatever, Uh-huh [Newsweek 06/12/03 ]