Critics Quotes

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
- Learn
- Child
- Congress
I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

Cecil B. DeMille
- People
- Critics

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong
- Exercise
- Write
- Poets
If you beat someone with a good name, of course some people are going to say he's past his prime, he's washed up, or he shouldn't be fighting. You're always going to have critics. It doesn't matter what the outcome is, whether it be good or whether it be bad.

Anthony Macias
- Critics
- Beat
- Outcome
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Michael Ian Black
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

George Maciunas
For I am nothing if not critical.

William Shakespeare
- Critics
- Critical
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

Thomas Hood
- Writing
- Fate
- Modern