Critics Quotes

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

It's not the critic that counts.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.

I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.