Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were… — Jon Meacham
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes… — Henry Miller
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until… — Robert Morgan
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad. — Mandy Patinkin
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. — Edgar Allan Poe
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. — Richard Pryor
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. — Harold Ramis
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. — Lou Reed
No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.' — Chris Rock
You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing. — Chris Rock
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. — Nile Rodgers
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I… — Anne Roiphe
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished… — Theodore Roosevelt
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my… — Jerry Saltz
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -… — Will Self
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. — Susan Sontag
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. — John Steinbeck

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