I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

— Keith Jarrett

It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I just don't…

— Keira Knightley

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their…

— Brad Bird

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon…

— Jonathan Swift

Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste…

— Chuck Klosterman

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

— Francois Truffaut

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so…

— James Salter

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

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

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