Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics. — Victor Mature Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know… — Stanley Kunitz 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
Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun. — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing… — William G. Bainbridge Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson Copy Share Image
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“The uncreative will always waste their energies on the impossible. Be unable to recognize the boundaries, how much of the spiritual the… — Carl Einstein Copy Share Image
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that I'm silencing the critics so many times but it's not that: I don't have to prove myself… — Paulinho Copy Share Image
For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I don't really care about the critics or when people talk good about me. It can't affect you. I'm one to trust… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
