Critics Quotes · Page 6

Critics are already made.

— Lord Byron

Don't let the critics get you down

— Mrthrill

I don't make films for critics.

— Allu Arjun

And make each day a critic on the last.

— Alexander Pope

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

— Vasilios Kotronias

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

— Keith Jarrett

It is not the critic who counts

— Theodore Roosevelt

We're our own worst critics.

— Justin Chancellor

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.

— Steven Furtick

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

— Joseph Joubert

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

— Gina Gershon

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

— John Baldacci

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

— Anonymous

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

— John Milius

“Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

— Chris Bosh

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money.

— Arthur Miller

“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her…

— Kate Moss

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

— Robert Redford

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

— Tori Amos

Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown,…

— Noam Chomsky

Yea, there is no way you can get away from critics. It's all over the net. Sometimes it's useful to read things,…

— Alexandre Desplat

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this…

— James Gray

I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was…

— Edward Snowden

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,…

— Lionel Trilling

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of…

— Jack Paar

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not…

— Ezra Pound

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

Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is…

— Damian Loeb

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has…

— Jerry Saltz

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

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down…

— Cornel West