Critics Quotes

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

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

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

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

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Everybody's an art critic.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

I don't have any special advice for America's women, except to know who you are and to put your priorities in order and to not worry about the naysayers and critics say.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

It's funny to be a critic.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

I'm too rich to care what the critics say.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.