Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but… — Ralph Ellison
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt
I don’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
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through… — Walter Gilbert
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
How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is… — Elliot Easton
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'… — Noam Chomsky
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their… — John Kenneth Galbraith
My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many… — Charles Spurgeon
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 critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena
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 Saunders
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned. — George Bernard Shaw
The world still awaits a proper inquiry into climategate: one that is not stacked with global warming advocates and one that is prepared to cross-examine… — Ross McKitrick
Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux
Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts… — Deneen Borelli
If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic. — Unknown Author
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights. — Umair Haque
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs.… — Annie Fellows Johnston
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them. — Robin Sharma
When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is… — Common

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