Critic Quotes

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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. — Mark Tobey
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. — John McCarthy
Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. — Robert Mondavi
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the… — Marianne Moore
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was… — Aaron Sanchez
Nothing is critic-proof. — Joan Didion
The only critic is a full house. — Rudolf Nureyev
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and… — Gary Hamel
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be… — Ben Brantley
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in… — Judith Crist
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can… — DH Lawrence
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could… — Theodore Roosevelt
Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic — Henry Louis Mencken
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades — Mark Twain
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. — Whitney Balliett
A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like — Henry Louis Mencken

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