If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative… — Dame Edna Everage Copy Share Image
The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults.… — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like -… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a… — Jamie Goode Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to… — Steve Gaynor Copy Share Image
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as… — George Benson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it?… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is… — Donald Keough Copy Share Image
I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too often drowned out by the exaggerations, demonizations,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
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