Critics Quotes · Page 65

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…

— Gustave Flaubert

And make each day a critic on the last.

— Alexander Pope

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times…

— Brenda Ueland

Don't get me started on critics.

— Beverly Sills

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

— An Na

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with…

— Todd Haynes

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

— William James

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but…

— Robertson Davies

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

— Terence Winter

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

— Chris Hoy

Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call…

— A. O. Scott

[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Children need models rather than critics.

— Joseph Joubert

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

— Samuel Johnson

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am…

— Walt Disney

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down,…

— Cory Booker

I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

— Eva Mendes

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her…

— John Wayne

The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling…

— William Plomer

Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.

— Justin Gatlin

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

— Joseph Silk

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is…

— George Bernard Shaw

To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not…

— Martin Seligman