Actors Quote by John Simm

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing…

— William Morris Hunt

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

— Twyla Tharp

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

— Anton Chekhov

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

— Ross Wetzsteon

“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

— Anonymous

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

— Wynton Marsalis

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the…

— Quentin Tarantino