The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist. — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics… — John Fante Copy Share Image
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
“If you base your worth on other people's opinion of you, you will be worth little or nothing by the time you… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?” — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film… — Kara Hayward Copy Share Image
“Criticism can be instructive in the sense that it gives readers, including the author of the book, some information about the critic's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.” — Faydra D. Fields Copy Share Image
I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal. — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself. — Wojciech Szczesny Copy Share Image
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert” — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
