Critics Quotes · Page 43

In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it.…

— A. H. Almaas

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

— Grady Little

“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are…

— Oscar Wilde

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight…

— Colm Toibin

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

— Susan Sontag

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest…

— Rudyard Kipling

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with…

— Jack Hunter

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films…

— John Carpenter

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to…

— Criss Jami

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public…

— Pauline Kael

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

— Sri Chinmoy

I think women are excellent social critics.

— Laurie Anderson

“Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of…

— Solange nicole

I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean…

— Deborah Smith

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared…

— Claude Monet

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the…

— Anonymous

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.…

— Isabel Allende

I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to…

— John Shelby Spong

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

— Leonard Bernstein

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

— Richard Le Gallienne