Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person,… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in… — Peter Criss Copy Share Image
“But fans, including critics, of particular movements of artists, tend to want what they love to stay the same, the regression is… — George Grella Jr Copy Share Image
I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment… — Will Wright Copy Share Image
At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
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![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
