Critics Quotes
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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Critics are already made.
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I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
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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.
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I guess my critics say, 'He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.' But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
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Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.
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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.
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The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
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The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
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I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.
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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.
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Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
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What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
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Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation. Beauty, according to its critics, causes us to gape and suspend all thought.
