Best 544 quotes in «critics quotes» category

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

I don't go to McDonalds, but when I was working for Gourmet magazine in New York City, my daughter liked to go there. I was completely paranoid that someone would recognize me there and say, 'Gourmet critic spotted at McDonalds! Buying a Happy Meal!'

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I have more critics than Hitler.