Critics Quotes

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Georges Seurat
- Critics
- Pointless
- Dots
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

Cary Grant
- Being
- Critics
- Suppose
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.

Hirokazu Kore-eda
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

William Hazlitt
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.

Mitch Leigh
- Critics
- Mouth
- While
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

Vivien Leigh
- World
- Husband
- Looks
How can you worry about pleasing people critics and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.

Elliot Easton
- Music
- Art
- Worry