Critics Quotes

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Cavil you may, but never criticise.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

I don't care about the critics.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

Don't get me started on critics.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.

When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.

Now everyone is a critic.

Critics should stick to their convictions.