Critics Quotes
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her 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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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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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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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.
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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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I was never a critic.
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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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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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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
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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 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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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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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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I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.
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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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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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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.
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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.
