Critics Quote by Charles Saatchi

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

— Thomas Paine

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which…

— Steven Pressfield

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

What's it take to bceome a sublime expounder of prose like yourself?

— Carlie

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world…

— Joseph Addison

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

CRITICS are people who aren't happy with themselves and love to find faults in others.

— Nishan Panwar

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

— Jean-Francois Millet

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor…

— George Edward Woodberry