Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence… — Bellamy Young
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any… — Zubin Mehta
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my… — Dinaw Mengestu
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying… — Jewel Staite
Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the… — Aretha Franklin
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered:… — Claire Tomalin
I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic. — Allison Williams
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. — Lee Siegel
The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. — Ridley Scott
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by… — David Josiah Brewer
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went… — Donald Sinden
I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats… — Norman Finkelstein
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. — George Bancroft
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. — Channing Pollock
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. — Lynn Lavner

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