A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert,… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling… — Joseph M. Kahn Copy Share Image
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise… — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It is easy now for critics to claim that the work was poor; they haven't produced their own analyses or confronted any… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted… — Bishop T.D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask… — Bert Sugar Copy Share Image
Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I. — John Huston Copy Share Image
I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In 1994, the critics said I was too young, in 1998, that I couldn't cross the ball, and in 2002 that I… — Cafu Copy Share Image
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
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