Criticism Quote by Gore Vidal

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if...…

— Georges Braque

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out…

— Rush Limbaugh

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

— Federico Fellini

“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

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think…

— Duke Ellington

I don't read the critics.

— Olivier Dahan

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first…

— Willem Dafoe

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound