A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.… — Mirah Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
