Critic Quotes · Page 12

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

— Dustin Hoffman

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

— Ginuwine

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

— John Crowe Ransom

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

— David Cross

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

— Susan Sontag

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Whitney Balliett

My favorite critic is a hater, cause they don't give a shit about you and you need that, never ignore or hide…

— The Weeknd

Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can't…

— Farah Khan

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as…

— Robert Genn

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

— Beck

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the…

— Claude Monet

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

— Peter Ustinov

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The best way to handle your critic, no matter how persistent or bratty she gets, is with love and compassion. When you…

— Kerri L. Richardson

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without…

— Gene Simmons

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to…

— Joseph Addison

When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who…

— George Steiner

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract…

— G.K. Chesterton

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise…

— Gina McKee

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert,…

— Hank Stuever

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

— Lee Siegel

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

— Laurie David

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

— Ridley Scott

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

— Ed Koch

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

— Kenneth Tynan

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

— Edward Abbey

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

— Manuel Pellegrini

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

— Gladys Berejiklian

“It’s not just all physical I’m the type who will get oh so critical”

— Tegan Quin

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

— Robert Mondavi

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

— David Toop

“A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.”

— Raheel Farooq

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

— John Steinbeck