Critics Quotes · Page 15

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

— Ayana Mathis

“When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— Robert Breault

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

— Michael Bloomberg

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

— Cecil B. DeMille

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

— Chris Rock

I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

— Henry Petroski

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall,…

— Carla Gugino

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society…

— Edward Abbey

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

— Amaury Nolasco

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

I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

— Tricia Helfer

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read…

— Judd Apatow

Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been…

— Larry Elder

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the…

— Walter J. Phillips

I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't…

— Harvey Pekar

“When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to…

— Randy Pausch

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the…

— Pauly Shore

Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics…

— Craig Mazin

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all…

— George Maciunas

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are…

— Matt Tyrnauer

If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called…

— Garry Kasparov

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those…

— Misty Copeland

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days…

— Bill Murray

What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.…

— Gordon S. Wood

[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something…

— Henry Miller

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

— Octavio Paz

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

— Mason Cooley

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

— Tristan Bernard

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

— James Gray

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

— Hortense Calisher

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

— Leonard Bernstein

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

— John Updike