A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something. — Alexander Gustafsson Copy Share Image
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first!… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare,… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
“I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I… — Rukhsana Khan Copy Share Image
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That… — James Salter Copy Share Image
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