Critic Quotes · Page 10

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

— Mauro Ranallo

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

— Criss Jami

I am my own biggest critic. I never like what I do.

— Sanya Malhotra

“I have studied these things - you have not.”

— Isaac Newton

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

— Lou Reed

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

— Joseph Addison

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

— Thomas Love Peacock

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost…

— Michael Jai White

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who…

— D. H. Lawrence

“And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than…

— Douglas Sirk

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy,…

— CM Punk

“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to…

— Raymond Chandler

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”

— Suzy Kassem

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would…

— Romola Garai

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism…

— Horace Walpole

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls,…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's…

— Tony McCoy

The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to…

— Garry Winogrand

“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or…

— Saint Basil

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree…

— Jean Kerr

My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest…

— Craig Venter

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

— Louis Dudek

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

— Johnny Gargano

“I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.”

— Anne Frank

Critics should stick to their convictions.

— Chuck Eddy

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

— Andrea Riseborough

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

— Wes Fesler

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

— Diana Rigg

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

— Jennifer Saunders

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

— Alexander Pope

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

— Fiona Apple

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

— Richard Pryor