Actors Quote by George Edward Woodberry

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…

— H. L. Mencken

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he…

— Lionel Trilling

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as…

— Clive James

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

— Oscar Wilde

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome,…

— Robertson Davies

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in…

— Walter Savage Landor

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic…

— Walter J. Phillips