Critic Quotes · Page 9

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

— Italo Calvino

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm a big self-critic and I know there is room for improvement.

— Mason Mount

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

— Tony Campolo

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

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

— Ansel Adams

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

“Don’t be a critic. The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.”

— Steve Maraboli

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe…

— John Keats

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas…

— Walter Benjamin

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

“He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

— Robert Warshow

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

— Ernest Hemingway

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing…

— Claire Tomalin

“I think that's what changed you, Beth. Your job. The film critic. Critics are parasites. They live off other people's creativity. They…

— Rainbow Rowell

Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so…

— Tom Shales

I think any critic that takes a swipe at 'Full House' is like taking the family dog. The dog brings you joy…

— Lori Loughlin

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of…

— Joseph Addison

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good,…

— Frank Sinatra

“Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with…

— Samuel Johnson

I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do.

— Big Show

I'm my dad's biggest fan and, yes, sometimes his worst critic.

— Ekta Kapoor

“Those who lack the guts to create critic.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

— Geraldo Rivera

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

— Edward Abbey

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

— Rod Lurie

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

— Steven Pressfield

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

— Gina Gershon

I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.

— Annette Bening

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

— James Payn

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

— James MacDonald

“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”

— Andy Merton

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

— Devon Aoki

A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

— Walter Darby Bannard