Quotes about Critics

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang. Votes: 4

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. Votes: 4

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Votes: 4

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Votes: 4

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. Votes: 4

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! Votes: 4

Critics build nothing. Votes: 3

Critics are already made. Votes: 3

Critics should find meaningful work. Votes: 3

Critics established a snobbery toward me. Votes: 3

Critics should stick to their convictions. Votes: 3

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. Votes: 3

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. Votes: 3

Critics? I love every bone in their heads. Votes: 3

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. Votes: 3

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. Votes: 3

I am a little god! Critics, be gone! Votes: 3

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults. Votes: 3

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. Votes: 3

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. Votes: 3

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. Votes: 3

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall. Votes: 3

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'. Votes: 3

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. Votes: 3

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest. Votes: 3

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. Votes: 3

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it. Votes: 3

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason. Votes: 3

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. Votes: 3

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Votes: 3

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. Votes: 3

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason. Votes: 3

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them. Votes: 3

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. Votes: 3

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Votes: 3

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. Votes: 3

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. Votes: 3

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. Votes: 3

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. Votes: 3

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves! Votes: 3

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. Votes: 3

Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. Votes: 3

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. Votes: 3

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. Votes: 3

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally. Votes: 3

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important. Votes: 3

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. Votes: 3

Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me. Votes: 3

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. Votes: 3

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I. Votes: 3

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. Votes: 3

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. Votes: 3

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism. Votes: 3

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. Votes: 3

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. Votes: 3

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? Votes: 3

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! Votes: 3

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. Votes: 3

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. Votes: 3

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. Votes: 3

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding. Votes: 3

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis. Votes: 3

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy. Votes: 3

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. Votes: 3

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! Votes: 3

Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. Votes: 3

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. Votes: 3

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author Votes: 3

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make. Votes: 3

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals Votes: 3

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. Votes: 3

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. Votes: 3

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. Votes: 3

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. Votes: 3

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose. Votes: 3

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one. Votes: 3

Young people need models, not critics. Votes: 2

It is not the critic who counts Votes: 2

For I am nothing if not critical. Votes: 2

I like criticism. It makes you strong. Votes: 2

The covers of this book are too far apart. Votes: 2

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. Votes: 2

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. Votes: 2

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. Votes: 2

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Votes: 2

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. Votes: 2

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. Votes: 2

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Votes: 2

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Votes: 2

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. Votes: 2

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Votes: 2

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Votes: 2

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Votes: 2

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. Votes: 2

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Votes: 2

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. Votes: 2

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... Votes: 2

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. Votes: 2

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right. Votes: 2

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. Votes: 2

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. Votes: 2

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. Votes: 2

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction. Votes: 2

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. Votes: 2

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.' Votes: 2

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before. Votes: 2

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. Votes: 2

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it. Votes: 2

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. Votes: 2

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Votes: 2

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. Votes: 2

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. Votes: 2

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. Votes: 2

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. Votes: 2

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Votes: 2

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. Votes: 2

I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around. Votes: 2

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. Votes: 2

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language. Votes: 2

Literary critics make natural detectives. Votes: 0

Sociological critics are waste makers. Votes: 0

All critics should be assassinated. Votes: 0

I never wish for critics. Votes: 0

I know all the critics. Votes: 0

I have more critics than Hitler. Votes: 0

Don't get me started on critics. Votes: 0

I love having critics for breakfast Votes: 0

I don't care about the critics. Votes: 0

I like critics with strong opinions. Votes: 0

Women critics are amazons in climax. Votes: 0

The critics don't build great cities Votes: 0

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? Votes: 0

Children need models rather than critics. Votes: 0

Well, it's great that critics are comparing Votes: 0

But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think. Votes: 0

I think women are excellent social critics. Votes: 0

There are no more geniuses, only critics. Votes: 0

There are no statues erected to critics. Votes: 0

Youth need less critics and more models. Votes: 0

Art critics are like every other critic. Votes: 0

All art critics are useless or harmful. Votes: 0

My biggest critics have never read me. Votes: 0

The world needs role models, instead of critics. Votes: 0

Keep your fans close and your critics closer Votes: 0

Pay no attention to what the critics say; Votes: 0

Women are the harshest critics of other women. Votes: 0

People are very harsh critics of animated humans. Votes: 0

I can't hear the critics talking over the applause. Votes: 0

When the critics come around it's always too late. Votes: 0

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics. Votes: 0

I don't care what critics and other people think. Votes: 0

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me. Votes: 0

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do. Votes: 0

Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. Votes: 0

I make my pictures for people, not for critics. Votes: 0

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. Votes: 0

A leader must not let critics set the agenda. Votes: 0

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. Votes: 0

No Matter what you do there will be critics. Votes: 0

I'm too rich to care what the critics say. Votes: 0

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Votes: 0

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Votes: 0

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics. Votes: 0

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Votes: 0

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. Votes: 0

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. Votes: 0

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle. Votes: 0

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics. Votes: 0

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics. Votes: 0

When you're a star, critics can't make or break you. Votes: 0

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative. Votes: 0

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. Votes: 0

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. Votes: 0

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! Votes: 0

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics Votes: 0

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama. Votes: 0

If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either. Votes: 0

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously Votes: 0

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. Votes: 0

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success. Votes: 0

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way. Votes: 0

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. Votes: 0

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written Votes: 0

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't. Votes: 0

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. Votes: 0

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics. Votes: 0

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics. Votes: 0

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. Votes: 0

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while Votes: 0

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars. Votes: 0

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. Votes: 0

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. Votes: 0

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics Votes: 0

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. Votes: 0

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. Votes: 0

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers. Votes: 0

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble. Votes: 0

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. Votes: 0

Be worried when the haters stop hating and the critics stop criticizing. Votes: 0

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff. Votes: 0

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me. Votes: 0

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics. Votes: 0

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. Votes: 0

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you. Votes: 0

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. Votes: 0

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15. Votes: 0

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. Votes: 0

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. Votes: 0

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. Votes: 0

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? Votes: 0

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway. Votes: 0

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. Votes: 0

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. Votes: 0

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. Votes: 0

You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul. Votes: 0

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless Votes: 0

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf. Votes: 0

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production. Votes: 0

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? Votes: 0

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart. Votes: 0

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS. Votes: 0

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. Votes: 0

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. Votes: 0

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been. Votes: 0

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. Votes: 0

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Votes: 0

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics. Votes: 0

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. Votes: 0

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. Votes: 0

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Votes: 0

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. Votes: 0

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life. Votes: 0

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . Votes: 0

Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race. Votes: 0

Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice. Votes: 0

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics. Votes: 0

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly. Votes: 0

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. Votes: 0

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. Votes: 0

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Votes: 0

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics! Votes: 0

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets. Votes: 0

Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic Votes: 0

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. Votes: 0

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. Votes: 0

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke. Votes: 0

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. Votes: 0

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. Votes: 0

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter Votes: 0

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world. Votes: 0

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics? Votes: 0

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics. Votes: 0

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. Votes: 0

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Votes: 0

What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself. Votes: 0

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. Votes: 0

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. Votes: 0

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics. Votes: 0

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. Votes: 0

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique. Votes: 0

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares. Votes: 0

The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. Votes: 0

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly. Votes: 0

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. Votes: 0

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. Votes: 0

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. Votes: 0

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. Votes: 0

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong. Votes: 0

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work. Votes: 0

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. Votes: 0

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. Votes: 0

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. Votes: 0

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot. Votes: 0

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. Votes: 0

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. Votes: 0

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. Votes: 0

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized. Votes: 0

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception. Votes: 0

I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics. Votes: 0

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. Votes: 0

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled. Votes: 0

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance. Votes: 0

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. Votes: 0

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. Votes: 0

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors. Votes: 0

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics. Votes: 0

The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 0

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. Votes: 0

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. Votes: 0

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. Votes: 0

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? Votes: 0

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is. Votes: 0

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. Votes: 0

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. Votes: 0

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. Votes: 0

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. Votes: 0

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. Votes: 0

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work. Votes: 0

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie. Votes: 0

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays give me the taste and the dressing Votes: 0

Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race. Votes: 0

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. Votes: 0

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing. Votes: 0

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Votes: 0

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth. Votes: 0

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy. Votes: 0

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. Votes: 0

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. Votes: 0

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. Votes: 0

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others. Votes: 0

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. Votes: 0

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. Votes: 0

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. Votes: 0

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now. Votes: 0

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. Votes: 0

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. Votes: 0

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again. Votes: 0

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us. Votes: 0

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. Votes: 0

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Votes: 0

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans. Votes: 0

A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics. Votes: 0

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be. Votes: 0

You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. Votes: 0

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Votes: 0

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. Votes: 0

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! Votes: 0

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. Votes: 0

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me Votes: 0

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . Votes: 0

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak. Votes: 0

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. Votes: 0

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow. Votes: 0

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business. Votes: 0

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran. Votes: 0

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present. Votes: 0

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. Votes: 0

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Votes: 0

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. Votes: 0

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Votes: 0

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Votes: 0

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator. Votes: 0

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. Votes: 0

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning. Votes: 0

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about. Votes: 0

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you. Votes: 0

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Votes: 0

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been. Votes: 0

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence! Votes: 0

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. Votes: 0

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. Votes: 0

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. Votes: 0

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. Votes: 0

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. Votes: 0

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. Votes: 0

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. Votes: 0

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. Votes: 0

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say. Votes: 0

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal. Votes: 0

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. Votes: 0

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run. Votes: 0

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. Votes: 0

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Votes: 0

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. Votes: 0

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.' Votes: 0

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. Votes: 0

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued. Votes: 0

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. Votes: 0

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves. Votes: 0

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. Votes: 0

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. Votes: 0

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. Votes: 0

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics. Votes: 0

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. Votes: 0

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?' Votes: 0

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level. Votes: 0

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. Votes: 0

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink. Votes: 0

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do. Votes: 0

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right. Votes: 0

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. Votes: 0

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. Votes: 0

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. Votes: 0

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs Votes: 0

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. Votes: 0

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you. Votes: 0

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight. Votes: 0

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. Votes: 0

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. Votes: 0

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! Votes: 0

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. Votes: 0

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks. Votes: 0

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. Votes: 0

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? Votes: 0

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. Votes: 0

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics. Votes: 0

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics. Votes: 0

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics. Votes: 0

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. Votes: 0

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. Votes: 0

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. Votes: 0

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does... Votes: 0

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke. Votes: 0

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up. Votes: 0

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Votes: 0

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. Votes: 0

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke. Votes: 0

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. Votes: 0

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. Votes: 0

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. Votes: 0

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics. Votes: 0

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. Votes: 0

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. Votes: 0

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored. Votes: 0

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far. Votes: 0

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic. Votes: 0

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. Votes: 0

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. Votes: 0

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. Votes: 0

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good. Votes: 0

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't. Votes: 0

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. Votes: 0

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance. Votes: 0

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot. Votes: 0

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. Votes: 0

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Votes: 0

I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue! Votes: 0

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. Votes: 0

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics. Votes: 0

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'. Votes: 0

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. Votes: 0

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) Votes: 0

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. Votes: 0

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. Votes: 0

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes. Votes: 0

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Votes: 0

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Votes: 0

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. Votes: 0

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. Votes: 0

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator. Votes: 0

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political. Votes: 0

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. Votes: 0

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it. Votes: 0

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. Votes: 0

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. Votes: 0

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad. Votes: 0

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face. Votes: 0

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. Votes: 0

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up. Votes: 0

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you. Votes: 0

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. Votes: 0

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard. Votes: 0

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die Votes: 0

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. Votes: 0

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. Votes: 0

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . Votes: 0

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Votes: 0

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. Votes: 0

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings. Votes: 0

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden Votes: 0

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. Votes: 0

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. Votes: 0

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners. Votes: 0

When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is. Votes: 0

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up. Votes: 0

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. Votes: 0

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Votes: 0

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. Votes: 0

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Votes: 0

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. Votes: 0

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything. Votes: 0

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. Votes: 0

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. Votes: 0

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. Votes: 0

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored. Votes: 0

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs. Votes: 0

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! Votes: 0

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it. Votes: 0

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should. Votes: 0

It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it. Votes: 0

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. Votes: 0

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. Votes: 0

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them. Votes: 0

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it. Votes: 0

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0