Critics Quotes

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

— William Arthur Ward

Sociological critics are waste makers.

— Andy Warhol

Everybody is their own critic.

— Gina Carano

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't listen to the critics.

— Ryan Tannehill

It's not the critic that counts.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

I have more critics than Hitler.

— Beau Ryan

Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.

— Gene Shalit

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

— Roy Jones Jr

“Keep your fans close and your critics closer”

— Girish Kohli

Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.

— Justin Gatlin

I'm too rich to care what the critics say.

— Mel Gibson

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

— Randall Jarrell

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

— Twyla Tharp

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." [ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977]”

— John Osborne

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

— Gustave Flaubert

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

— Michael Vick

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never…

— Ismail Merchant

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

— David Sedaris

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

— Charles Saatchi

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

— Harold Bloom

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

— Bill Murray

I cater to a viewer because that viewer's taste matters more than anyone else's, and I will keep him first in mind…

— Ekta Kapoor

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I…

— Haruki Murakami

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for…

— Abraham Lincoln

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was…

— Jim Harrison

Critics are always complaining 'This doesn't challenge me.' Well, most people don't want to be challenged. They had to work all day,…

— Jon Cryer

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been…

— Tom Shales

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted…

— Pete Townshend

The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a…

— Immortal Technique

I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So…

— Raekwon

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the…

— Meg Greenfield

Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive…

— Robert H. Frank

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“We must not make exaggerated demand on critics, and particularly we must not expect that criticism can function as an exact science.…

— François Truffaut

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it…

— Hutton Gibson

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather…

— Anthony Romero