Critic Quotes

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

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.

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.