Critics Quotes · Page 12

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.

— Robin Sharma

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

— Lawrence Durrell

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

— Abraham Lincoln

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

— George Edward Moore

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

— Andy Hargreaves

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

— Wes Fesler

Critics should stick to their convictions.

— Chuck Eddy

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really…

— Henry Fielding

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

— Shia LaBeouf

Critics said I am nasal, but my fans made me hit. So I will not stop singing if critics don't like me.

— Himesh Reshammiya

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to…

— Brian Lumley

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

— Nicolas Cage

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

— Gene Kelly

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also…

— Kenneth Tynan

There is so much people hate about Kim Kardashian, it sometimes seems as though her critics get as much enjoyment out of…

— Kim Brooks

Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and…

— Stephen Covey

I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for…

— Ashley Wagner

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without…

— John Lahr

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as…

— Clive James

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if…

— Miranda Richardson

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…

— Anton Chekhov

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to…

— Charles M. Schwab

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social…

— Wesley Morris

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's…

— Terry Teachout

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your…

— Natalie Goldberg

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into…

— Semir Zeki

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians.…

— Emily Haines

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy

“But criticism, for the most part, comes from the opposite place that book-enjoying should come from. To enjoy art one needs time,…

— Dave Eggers

I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's…

— Peter Berg

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

— Rita Mae Brown

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

— Gregory Nunn

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

— Hope Solo

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

— Doris Lessing

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

— Alexander Pope

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

— Jennifer Saunders