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Critic Quotes by Mark Twain
- This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to…
- The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
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- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- 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
- The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas… — Walter Benjamin
- I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel
- 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
- Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic. — Winston Churchill