Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

Time is the only critic without ambition. — John Steinbeck
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have… — Barbra Streisand
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like… — Amy Tan
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. — Quentin Tarantino
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a… — Simone Weil
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of… — James Whistler
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. — Elwyn Brooks White
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. — Oscar Wilde
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't. — Bernard Williams
I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be… — Amy Winehouse
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. — P.G. Wodehouse
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies… — George Edward Woodberry
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… — Virginia Woolf
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate. — Alber Elbaz
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if… — Romola Garai
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as… — George Bernard Shaw
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country,… — Edward Abbey
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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