Critics Quotes

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

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.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

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

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

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.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.