Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman
For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth. — Wes Fesler
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. — Spike Lee
Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art. — David Toop
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad — Claude Monet
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. — Pablo Picasso
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… — Paul Cezanne
[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has… — Man Ray
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great… — Claude Monet
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to… — Edouard Manet
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real… — Friedrich Schiller
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. — Nat King Cole
A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics. — Unknown Author
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are… — David Suzuki
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins

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