Critic Quote by Andy Merton

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with…

— Raymond Chandler

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic.…

— Edward Albee

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

— James Russell Lowell

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives…

— Ricky Gervais

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

— Wayne Thiebaud

“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A…

— Kevin Guilfoile

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

— Skepta

“He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A flâneur knows that the wrong way to use the city is actually the right way.”

— Martha Bayne