Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and… — Neil Gaiman
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say “dig” with a straight face… — Jordan Sonnenblick
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by… — William James
Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists… — Richard Dawkins
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope
Literary critics make natural detectives. — A. S. Byatt
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better… — Madeleine L'Engle
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic! — E.D. Baker
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but… — Ezra Pound
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For… — Bob Dylan
This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman… — C.S. Lewis
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic. — Leonard Bernstein
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said,… — Kurt Vonnegut
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart… — Jane Yolen
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way,… — D. H. Lawrence
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap… — Pablo Picasso
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have… — John Logan
I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Ansel Adams
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work… — Pierre Bourdieu
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? — John Waters
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not… — Lee Kuan Yew

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