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Critic Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
- Time is the only critic without ambition.
- In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
More Critic Quotes
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas… — Walter Benjamin
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel
- A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop
- Be a doer and not a critic. — Tony Blair
- I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen,… — Mary J. Blige