Best 544 quotes in «critics quotes» category

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 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 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 are no statues erected to critics.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

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

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

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

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

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film critics on the Stanford Daily, and they got free passes to all the theaters in Palo Alto. So I thought, I'll do that, and I became a film critic. And then I became interested in films. But I had no time to study anything in that area because I was a senior, just finishing up as engineering.

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

Women critics are amazons in climax.

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.