Aptitude Quote by A. E. Housman

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

— Michael Hersch

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

— Judith Crist

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

— Wendell Berry

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

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Some critics are pointless - but many can offer me lessons.

— Fred

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

— Whitney Balliett

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've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

— James MacDonald

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe…

— John Dryden