Best 544 quotes in «critics quotes» category

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

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

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The only critic is a full house.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad.

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.

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.

There are no statues erected to critics.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection.

We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.

Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.