Critic Quotes

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I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

Art critics are like every other critic.

Everybody's an art critic.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

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Unless you are a restaurant critic... nobody cares what you had for lunch.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word