Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen
Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic — Werner Erhard
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we… — Unknown Author
When the critics come around it's always too late. — Sidney Nolan
I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics. — Janet Fish
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially… — Bill Bowerman
If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either. — Nicki Minaj
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life… — H. L. Mencken
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. — Jean Rostand
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness.… — Camille Paglia
People who ask for your criticism want only praise. — W. Somerset Maugham
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us… — Susan Sontag
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. — Michel de Montaigne

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