Critic Quotes
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
Rudyard Kipling
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Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Claude Monet
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'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.
Rich Moore
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What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
Cate Blanchett
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
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A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
George Bernard Shaw
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.
Ezra Pound
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I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. This resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.
Tricia Helfer
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Henrik Ibsen
