Critics are already made.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied monster—even its…

— Sov8840

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

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

— Mack Brown

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

— David Toop

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 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

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

— John Mason Brown

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