Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not… — John Wayne
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too… — Miles Davis
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it… — Rosanna Arquette
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters
Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into… — Ron Paul
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. — Peter Ustinov
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. — Graham Nash
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
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and… — Armond White
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
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. — Edward Abbey
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — 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
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more… — Manny Farber

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