Critics Quotes · Page 51

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been…

— Kirk Douglas

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

— Paul Feig

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

— Parker Palmer

The Commonwealth Games have their critics, though I suspect that they are generally people who haven't experienced them.

— Chris Hoy

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain…

— Graham Joyce

I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great…

— Martin Scorsese

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine,…

— John Updike

“The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute…

— Jorge Luis Borges

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got…

— Dorothy Fields

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say,…

— Charles Baudelaire

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they…

— Eva Hart

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within…

— George Frederic Watts

I just think to pose for the Body Issue is a good idea for people that are bigger-boned. If people can look…

— Vince Wilfork

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were…

— Henri Matisse

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living…

— Louis Auchincloss

Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating,…

— Gordon Ramsay

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his…

— J. M. Coetzee

There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue had never been erected in honor of a critic”

— Jean Sibelius

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you…

— Pablo Picasso

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must…

— Charles Tomlinson

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

— Ray Bradbury

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

— Ambrose Bierce

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

— Edward Albee

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the…

— Richard O'Brien

Like a green fly, A critic is an irritation. To prove I'm the shit, I am their temptation.

— Juju

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

— Ernest Hemingway

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I…

— Russell Westbrook

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking…

— Antony Gormley

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

— Joyce Meyer

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

— Richard Cordray