Critics Quotes

• I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • God
  • Hurt
  • Figures

• 'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Broken
  • Because
  • Album

• A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Drama
  • Critics
  • Playwright

• I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

  

  Caleb Joshua Shomo Attack Attack!
  • Stuff
  • Critics
  • Worried

• The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Writing
  • Novelists
  • Harsh

• You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Teacher

• The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • People
  • World
  • Truth

• When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Honest

• Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

  

  Peter Brook
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Special

• Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

  

  Bert Sugar
  • Writer
  • Critics
  • Dogs

• The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Age

• Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Age
  • Suffering
  • Girls

• Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Battle
  • Survivor

• I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Photography

• You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Water
  • Ingredients
  • Lectures

• I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

  

  Vissarion Belinsky
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Convinced

• Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Humble
  • Critics
  • Newcastle

• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Done
  • Influence
  • Greek

• Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

  

  William Cowper
  • Art
  • Eye
  • Cheat

• The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

  

  William Plomer
  • Eye
  • Born
  • Surprise

• I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Kids
  • Funny
  • Grows

• A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Surprise

• If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

  

  Alonso Duralde
  • Destroy
  • Critics
  • Hit

• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Sentences
  • Variety
  • Catchers

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