Critic Quotes

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

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

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The only critic is a full house.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.