Best 544 quotes in «critics quotes» category

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

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.

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.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

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

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

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

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 most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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.

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?

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

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

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

Women critics are amazons in climax.

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

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

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

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.