Critics Quotes · Page 4

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

— Joel Siegel

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Everybody hates critics.

— Gene Simmons

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

— Jacoby Shaddix

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

— Eli Wallach

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

— Marian Seldes

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

— Francois Mauriac

There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short…

— David Edelstein

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly…

— Jonathan Swift

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights…

— Hortense Calisher

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious…

— Simon de Pury

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

— William Zinsser

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

— Gregory Nunn

Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it…

— Janet Scudder

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both…

— Jay Leno

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous…

— A. Y. Jackson

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than…

— Bernard Hopkins

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

— Kevin Costner

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing…

— Anonymous

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

— Michael J. Knowles

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read…

— Oscar Wilde

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

— Walt Disney