Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not…

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

— Oscar Wilde

The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter…

— Louis Menand

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

— Susan Sontag

That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is…

— Terry Teachout

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it…

— David Bianculli

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

— Federico Fellini

It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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