Criticism Quote by Spike Lee

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

— Edward Abbey

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

— Francois Truffaut

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

— John Updike

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come.…

— Woody Allen

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

— John Legend

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate…

— Burton Rascoe

I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling…

— Eyedea

You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett