Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. — Zig Ziglar
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison
Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic? — BrenÃ© Brown
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. — Paul Gauguin
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he… — Robert A. Heinlein
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. — Harold Bloom
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen
Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic — Werner Erhard
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we… — Micheal Mac Liammoir
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought… — Oscar Wilde
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,… — Samuel Johnson
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James

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