Critics Quotes · Page 18

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

— Adam Jones

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

— Garth Brooks

The market is the only critic that matters.

— Walter Kirn

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

— Chinua Achebe

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

— Arthur Rimbaud

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

— Enzo Ferrari

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.

— Laurence Olivier

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

— Austin O'Malley

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

— Quentin Tarantino

As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down…

— Claude Monet

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

— Jean Cocteau

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

— Janeane Garofalo

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.

— Cheryl Burke

I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my…

— Daryl Hall

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the…

— Lance Morrow

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared…

— Claude Monet

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having…

— Samuel Johnson

Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to…

— Edgar Degas

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of…

— Uwe Boll

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people…

— Clifford Geertz

In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that…

— Barbara Harbach

I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work…

— Jeff Cardoni

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard…

— Dean Karnazes

I never think anyone will like what I do. I'm always terrified the critics won't like my film and of course you…

— Terence Davies

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your…

— Ludwig von Mises

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad…

— Brigid Brophy

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in…

— Théophile Gautier

I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their…

— Glenn Miller

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

— Nick Love

I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.

— Sajid Khan

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

— Francois Truffaut

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

— Alan Hansen

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

— Gavin Rossdale

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

— Mitch Albom

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

— William Styron