Critics Quote by Pauline Kael

Art critics are like every other critic.

— Marc Jacobs

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

— Theophile Gautier

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people…

— Kenneth Koch

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

— Anonymous

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making…

— Paul Schrader

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

— Dougray Scott

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the…

— Dana Gioia

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

— Brian Lumley

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most…

— Quentin Tarantino

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

— Erica Jong