Critics Quotes · Page 56

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the…

— Graham King

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and…

— Walter J. Phillips

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they…

— Jerry Lewis

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape…

— Henry Louis Gates

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics…

— Bruno Mars

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps…

— H. L. Mencken

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…

— Michael Caine

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a…

— Aubrey Beardsley

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped…

— Sasha Frere-Jones

When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral…

— Karen DeCrow

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the…

— Blythe Danner

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of…

— Jim Jarmusch

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist…

— Oscar Wilde

The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics…

— Masha Tupitsyn

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not…

— Paulo Coelho

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and…

— Salman Rushdie

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe…

— Walter Savage Landor

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The…

— Patrick Stump

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points…

— Anonymous

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant…

— Alex Cox

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the…

— Dree Hemingway

“Most inequality critics today are economists, journalists, politicians, policy wonks, or political commentators. But most of their ideas are derived from egalitarian…

— Don Watkins

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put…

— Sara Sheridan

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points…

— Patti LuPone

Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans…

— Matt Taibbi

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received…

— Charles Lamb

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story…

— Joyce Maynard

I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not…

— Arthur Eddington

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what…

— Duke Ellington

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one…

— John Wooden

One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really…

— Kiese Laymon

Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones…

— Jenny Lawson

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize…

— Peter Bogdanovich

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more…

— Michael Schudson

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,…

— Ray Bradbury

In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing…

— Virginia Postrel

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than…

— Edward Albee

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are…

— George Lucas