Criticism Quote by Kenneth Tynan

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

— Wilson Mizner

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

— Kenneth Tynan

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

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,…

— Lanford Wilson

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of…

— Ben Brantley

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

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

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Paul Gauguin

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

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the…

— Jean Kerr