Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama]… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri 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
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me?… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
“I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
