Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. — Roger Ebert
Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan. — Emily Kinney
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. — Heather Matarazzo
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only… — Nelson Algren
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or… — Harold Bloom
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every… — Edward Abbey
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
I donâ€™t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — Leo Tolstoy
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.... — Eugene Ionesco
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered… — James Joyce
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be… — Gustave Flaubert
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth
The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss… — George Sanders
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned. — George Bernard Shaw
If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic. — Starlee Kine

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