Critics Quotes
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
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I was never a critic.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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Although critics of capitalism claim regulations were being gutted during the Bush years, the number of Register pages exploded—as did the amount spent by federal regulatory agencies and the number of people employed by those agencies.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
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There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
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Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
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I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.
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I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.
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It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
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This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
