Critics Quotes · Page 25

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the…

— Claude Monet

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…

— Michael Caine

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would…

— Robert Herrick

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care.…

— Michael Hersch

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

— Zubin Mehta

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst…

— Jerry Saltz

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

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find…

— David Adjaye

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

— Randy Moss

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the…

— John Waters

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what…

— Bill Viola

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

— Theophile Gautier

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

— Nelson Algren

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

— Quincy Jones

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their…

— John Lennon

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

— John Ruskin

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,…

— Nick Laird

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

— John Dryden

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

— Herman Melville

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only…

— Brian Lumley

I don't have any special advice for America's women, except to know who you are and to put your priorities in order…

— Kellyanne Conway