Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it…

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

— Raymond Chandler

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory…

— Camille Paglia

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction.…

— Henry Louis Gates

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic…

— Patricia Clarkson

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

— Uncle Kracker

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

— Oscar Wilde

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

— Frederic Raphael

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The…

— Stephen Hunter

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

— Dennis Haysbert

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

— Samantha Akkineni

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

— Lando Norris