Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. — Carolyn Wells
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. — Arna Bontemps
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows? — Christian Slater
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic… — Claude Monet
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined… — Dean Karnazes
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy. — Thomas Love Peacock
And make each day a critic on the last. — Alexander Pope
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience,… — Carl Jung
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but… — Emma Goldman
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be… — Peter Medawar
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written… — George Bernard Shaw
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is… — Edward Albee
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. — Leslie Fiedler
Be a harsh critic of your own wins. — Vasilios Kotronias
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator… — Clive James
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in… — Judith Crist

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