Critics Quotes

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The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is… — Walter J. Phillips
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an… — Walter J. Phillips
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal. — Mack Brown
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within… — Jonathan Moyo
When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory… — Jacob Epstein
The market is the only critic that matters. — Walter Kirn
The best critic needn't be right, just interesting. — Walter Kirn
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I… — Walter Darby Bannard
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. — Walter Darby Bannard
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — Robert Genn
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial… — Robert Genn
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. — Wayne Thiebaud
Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they… — Mark Kostabi
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. — E. J. Hughes
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man,… — Charles M. Schwab
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask… — Walter Cronkite
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long… — Walt Disney
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He… — Will Rogers
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new… — Richard M. Nixon
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if… — Theodore Roosevelt
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the… — John Greenleaf Whittier

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