Critics Quotes
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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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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It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
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Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.
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All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
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But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.
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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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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
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If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.
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If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
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We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
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Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.
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American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
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The ‘right reading’ is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we’ve read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we’ve truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.
