Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Votes: 4
Sol LeWittCritics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. Votes: 3
Mitch AlbomCritics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them. Votes: 3
Robin SharmaCritics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. Votes: 3
Erica JongCritics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. Votes: 3
Edward AbbeyCritics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Votes: 3
Joyce Carol OatesCritics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. Votes: 3
Peter UstinovAnd you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeCritics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. Votes: 3
John LegendCritics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves! Votes: 3
Harry CohnCritics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. Votes: 3
Billy JoelCritics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. Votes: 3
Duke EllingtonI've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. Votes: 3
Jerry LewisCritics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. Votes: 3
Sachin TendulkarCritics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. Votes: 3
Spike LeeCritics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. Votes: 3
Ernest HemingwayRappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me. Votes: 3
DrakeA critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. Votes: 2
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelA drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Votes: 2
Wilson MiznerA critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Votes: 2
Mignon McLaughlinThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Votes: 2
Dorothy ParkerIf my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. Votes: 2
Margaret ThatcherIt's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Votes: 2
Chuck PalahniukIt is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... Votes: 2
Theodore RooseveltWhen all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. Votes: 0
Joel SiegelImplementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. Votes: 0
Andy HargreavesChildren read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerDon't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. Votes: 0
Lawrence FerlinghettiExceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. Votes: 0
John EliotYou are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWhy do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? Votes: 0
Augustus William HareCosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliMusic critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. Votes: 0
Marilyn MansonThe inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless Votes: 0
Georges SeuratDespite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production. Votes: 0
Kenneth FisherAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Votes: 0
Edward AlbeeThe lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. Votes: 0
George Edward MooreGreat critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. Votes: 0
Raymond ChandlerMy critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets. Votes: 0
Blake SheltonThere are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. Votes: 0
Elvis CostelloEverybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenYour destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenWell, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice. Votes: 0
Uncle KrackerThose who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics. Votes: 0
James CookEvery time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly. Votes: 0
Bryan CranstonThere will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. Votes: 0
John CageRomanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics! Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudTomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThere are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . Votes: 0
Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveThe critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. Votes: 0
Doris LessingIt's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. Votes: 0
Harvey WeinsteinThose critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work. Votes: 0
Scott RudinWe are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. Votes: 0
Walt DisneySenator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. Votes: 0
Peter JenningsI learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. Votes: 0
Gina GershonFor critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeTo literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Votes: 0
Nelson AlgrenWhat your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares. Votes: 0
Miuccia PradaNever defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. Votes: 0
Fay WeldonIf you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly. Votes: 0
Peyton ManningWhen you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituReligion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics. Votes: 0
William JamesIt's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics. Votes: 0
Alex GibneyCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauPeople taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. Votes: 0
Louis de BernieresListening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. Votes: 0
Robert DuvallThe Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. Votes: 0
Anurag KashyapThe most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. Votes: 0
Doris Lessing'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. Votes: 0
Anurag KashyapThe most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized. Votes: 0
Ulysses S. GrantFilmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. Votes: 0
Wim WendersThe critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong. Votes: 0
Bill MurraySome day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. Votes: 0
Francois TruffautTake heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. Votes: 0
Jean RostandI'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy. Votes: 0
Nick LoveDon't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenWe all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultLet dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays give me the taste and the dressing Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldThe stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. Votes: 0
Arthur GuitermanLet dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanI've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. Votes: 0
Tim DalyRather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work. Votes: 0
Tyler PerryHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. Votes: 0
Eli WallachI cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Votes: 0
Irwin ShawAuthors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? Votes: 0
Alexander PopeAll players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is. Votes: 0
Nomar GarciaparraThe list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 0
Jeane J. KirkpatrickHigh above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. Votes: 0
Mollie MartiIt's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics. Votes: 0
William MonahanIt is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans. Votes: 0
Oksana BaiulI'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. Votes: 0
Oscar PetersonIf you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow. Votes: 0
Arturo ToscaniniIt was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. Votes: 0
Jack LevineMy views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me Votes: 0
Irwin ShawMy views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. Votes: 0
Irwin ShawDid some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeSteve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak. Votes: 0
Kevin O'LearyI don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieThe eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorWhen critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. Votes: 0
Chuck JonesTo those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! Votes: 0
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Votes: 0
Thomas HarrisMy idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. Votes: 0
David MametI don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. Votes: 0
Piers AnthonyEvery time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. Votes: 0
Cecil B. DeMilleThe critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. Votes: 0
Judith CristI don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again. Votes: 0
Mel GibsonAnybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaYou're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say. Votes: 0
Artie LangeI write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoIf I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. Votes: 0
Graham NashIf I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. Votes: 0
Graham NashIn truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayIf you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Votes: 0
Natalie GoldbergYou make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run. Votes: 0
Vin DieselThe difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. Votes: 0
Edward AlbeeOne battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. Votes: 0
Alex Van HalenThose who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. Votes: 0
John DrydenListen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. Votes: 0
Michael StipeTheatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. Votes: 0
Tim CrouchI don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal. Votes: 0
Mack BrownWhen authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineSome have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeI don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right. Votes: 0
Kid RockA man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkeIf the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?' Votes: 0
Gavin SchmidtThere was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. Votes: 0
John WatersI've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. Votes: 0
James CaanWhat you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do. Votes: 0
Paul FeigSee Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. Votes: 0
Greg IlesI always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. Votes: 0
Jon Bon JoviIn the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Votes: 0
Harold BloomI don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does... Votes: 0
Ginger RogersNew York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. Votes: 0
Barbra StreisandI don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored. Votes: 0
Les DawsonWhen you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'. Votes: 0
Amaury NolascoI 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 Jean-Michel Basquiat
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience. Votes: 3 Ruth Reichl
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way. Votes: 3 Joe Bastianich
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. Votes: 4 Roger Ebert
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. Votes: 3 Igor Stravinsky