The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up… — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are… — James Wan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
All the London critics, including Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson, came down to Bristol to see 'The Crucible'. — Rosemary Harris Copy Share Image
I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall,… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'. — Amaury Nolasco Copy Share Image
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
