Critics Quotes · Page 27

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win…

— Francis Bacon

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a…

— Carl Sagan

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's…

— Aloe Blacc

I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away…

— Duke Ellington

Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say…

— Vivien Leigh

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

— Meher Baba

I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had…

— Garry Kasparov

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah,…

— Channing Tatum

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

— James Polshek

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

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,…

— Jessica Valenti

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very…

— Roger Ebert

You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a…

— Edward Albee

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a…

— Craig Brown

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

— Dave Hickey

Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing…

— Michelle Malkin

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

— Tristan Bernard

The critics don't build great cities

— Federico Pena

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

— Ry Cooder

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize…

— Peter Bogdanovich

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge…

— Gabrielle Roth

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics…

— Alice Walker

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

— Laurence Olivier

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

— Craig Finn