Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any… — Howard Hodgkin
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends;… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the… — Kim Harrison
I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us… — Glenn Miller
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife â€” a tyrannical midwife. — Stephen Spender
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. — Chuck Jones
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones
With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a… — Robert Greene
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C.S. Lewis
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow. — Arturo Toscanini
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this… — Jascha Heifetz
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and… — Clifford Geertz
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your… — George Benson
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.… — Helen Vendler
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes… — Michael Bay

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