Critics Quotes

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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the… — Garry Winogrand
Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis. — David Shuster
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. — Black Francis
When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics. — Marc Ecko
I know all the critics. — Dana Hill
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic. — Robert Breault
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. — Robert Breault
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. — Thomas B. Macaulay
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. — Riccardo Muti
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. — Thomas de Quincey
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics… — James Whistler
For I am nothing if not critical. — William Shakespeare
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it… — Thomas Hood
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. — William Hazlitt
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work… — Samuel Johnson
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not… — Leonardo da Vinci
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper
Nor in the critic let the man be lost. — Alexander Pope
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. — Oliver Goldsmith
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die — Robert Herrick

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