Critics Quotes
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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Nelson Algren
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
George Eliot
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
Cecil B. DeMille
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Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
Henry Louis Gates
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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
Steven Van Zandt
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Carolyn Wells
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
Claude Monet
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I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.
Amanda McKittrick Ros
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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
Henry Selick
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During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
Ernst Gombrich
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Critics are already made.
Lord Byron
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Paul Di Filippo
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Richard Le Gallienne
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Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.
Richard Sherman
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There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.
Deborah Meier
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You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
Nicolas Cage
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Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
Russell Baker
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I have more critics than Hitler.
Beau Ryan
