Critic Quotes · Page 8

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

— Nick Cave

It's those damn critics again.

— Irwin Shaw

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

— Keerthy Suresh

I am so self-critical.

— Sanya Malhotra

I am my own biggest critic.

— Simon Mignolet

Time is the only critic without ambition.

— John Steinbeck

Nothing is critic-proof.

— Joan Didion

“No critic ever added value to the world.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Repeated critic sounds like music classic. I prefer Mozard or Bethoven”

— Wuwun Wiati

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

“Easy to be a critic; hard to be a quarterback.”

— T. Scott McLeod

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

— Gary Giddins

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

— Sir Walter Scott

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking…

— Antony Gormley

“It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer's…

— Tom Bissell

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must…

— Charles Tomlinson

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

— Ambrose Bierce

Two-thousand-and-eighteen is the year of the buffet, and as a restaurant critic, I applaud this.

— Grace Dent

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…

— Gustave Flaubert

The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three…

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -…

— Michael Hastings

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each…

— Thornton Wilder

I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was…

— Jonathan Moyo

I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly…

— Chuck Klosterman

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other…

— Walter Kirn

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am…

— Sonia Rykiel

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in…

— Edward Albee

I am my biggest critic. I am never satisfied with anything.

— Athiya Shetty

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

— Samuel Johnson

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Stay away from critics, the critics have to be selfish now

— Mak_786

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

— Zig Ziglar

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

— Joe Regalbuto

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

— A. E. Housman

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

— Raymond Chandler