I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera 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
The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face. — Reggie White Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
