Critics Quotes · Page 39

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that…

— Thomas Kinkade

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,…

— Greil Marcus

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as…

— George Benson

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

— Jimmy Page

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go…

— Robert Lepage

I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly…

— Diane Ladd

I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.

— Drake

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people…

— Louis Auchincloss

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read…

— Judd Apatow

My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort…

— Charles Spurgeon

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works,…

— Virginia Woolf

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film…

— Quentin Tarantino

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be…

— Cindy Sherman

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see;…

— Thomas Love Peacock

People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic'... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part…

— Lauren Mackler

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated…

— Paul Gauguin

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

— Michael Ian Black

“Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment…

— Michael P. Naughton

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in…

— Théophile Gautier

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the…

— Walter J. Phillips

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

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

— Natalie Goldberg

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the…

— Stephane Mallarme

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

— Anonymous