Best 544 quotes in «critics quotes» category

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 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 criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

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

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

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

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 even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

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

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 make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

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

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I have more critics than Hitler.

I like critics with strong opinions.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

I'm a tough critic on myself.