Critic Quote by Judith Crist

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of…

— John Steinbeck

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display…

— Tucker Max

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

— Jasper Johns

I would play the songs for my mom, and she would give me pretty good criticism on them. She was never mean, or too…

— Noah Kahan

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and…

— Ramin Bahrani

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer…

— Joel Osteen

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

— John Gourley

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

“All Criticism is Good Criticism. Learn from it.”

— Jamilia Fair

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

— Quentin Tarantino

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

— Leslie Fiedler

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few…

— Randall Jarrell

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your…

— Adam Rapp

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

— Aleksandra Mir