Critics Quotes
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
Oksana Baiul -
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.
Nicki Minaj -
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!
George Benson -
I love having critics for breakfast.
Carlos Fuentes -
I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
I don't read the critics.
Olivier Dahan
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Be a doer and not a critic.
Tony Blair -
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar -
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Naomi Wolf -
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
Andrew Cuomo
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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
Richard McCabe -
I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.
Behdad Sami -
There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.
Manning Marable -
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway -
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
Maya Angelou -
With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
Chuck Klosterman -
I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
Curtis Hanson -
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde -
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou