Art Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

— Leslie Fiedler

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Art critics are like every other critic.

— Marc Jacobs

Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay…

— Terry Teachout

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

— Brad Listi

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I…

— Pauline Kael

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee