Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is… — Edward de Bono
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. — Paul Gauguin
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light. — Claude Monet
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from… — Lucy R. Lippard
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a… — Harold Rosenberg
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume… — Leo Steinberg
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films.… — Roger Corman
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like… — Adam Gopnik
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that… — John Scott
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is… — Walter J. Phillips
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within… — Jonathan Moyo
The market is the only critic that matters. — Walter Kirn
The best critic needn't be right, just interesting. — Walter Kirn
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. — Walter Darby Bannard

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