Critics Quotes

I like critics with strong opinions.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

Critics say it's illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It's also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn't born in this country.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

I was never a critic.

I know all the critics.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.