Critics Quotes

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

It's not the critic who counts.

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

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

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

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

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.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

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.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

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

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.