Critics Quotes · Page 71

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

— Gene Kelly

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics…

— John Fante

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of…

— Milton Resnick

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken…

— Dan Chiasson

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

— John Milius

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.…

— Gary Krist

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

— Nicolas Cage

But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics…

— Vivien Leigh

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

— Ambrose Bierce

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

— Terry Eagleton

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to…

— Mimi Sheraton

Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically…

— David Edelstein

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would…

— Romola Garai

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

— Mark Twain

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

— Tony Gonzalez

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of…

— Whit Stillman

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them…

— Noel Coward

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

— Tim Crouch

We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't…

— Garrison Keillor

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and…

— Thomas Hoving

Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could…

— Catherine Wilson

I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched…

— Charles R. Morris

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

— Ernest Hemingway

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term…

— Claude Debussy