Critics Quotes · Page 73

But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

— Fred Hersch

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to…

— Edmund Burke

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary…

— T. S. Eliot

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred…

— Samuel Johnson

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

— Paul Robeson

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the…

— Nilo Cruz

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

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

— Henry Selick

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the…

— Mark Twain

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,…

— Elizabeth George

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

— Mickey Spillane

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at…

— Alexander Pope

There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a…

— Anonymous

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being…

— Jim Jarmusch

There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've…

— Eddie Murphy

Critics wonder will I last long?

— Yonem

“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

— Dana Perino

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what…

— Adam Gopnik

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked…

— Adam Sandler