Critics Quotations | Page 5

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

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

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Everybody is their own critic.

My biggest critics have never read me.

If I give the impression we are a world government, we'll get even more critics and our critics will be emboldened,

I don't want to do anything that gives our critics an opportunity to raise issues, but the SEC needs my leadership, ... Public investors need my leadership. And we are going to do our utmost to make sure we serve them.

However, I do not believe it is right when a minister corrects his theology - or his view on a point of Scripture - and the critics continue to bring up that same subject.

For the longest time critics have claimed, and I am one of them, that the airline industry leans on their security guard companies to process people quickly. In cities with large populations, you'll see they move people faster, which means they are not opening bags and taking away things that could be a weapon.

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

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

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

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

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

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

They condemn what they do not understand.

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

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

Critics should find meaningful work.

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

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

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

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

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

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

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

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

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

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

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

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

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

Critics are already made.

This is a great victory. . . . We heard predictions and from many critics and pundits that Congress would never repeal the Byrd amendment.

This is a classic confrontation between purists and pragmatists. It has been going on in both parties since the 1960s. This example is especially stark because DeWine and his critics are both conservative and committed to the same basic values.

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

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

All critics should be assassinated.

The downside is that critics get their records for free,

The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

The critics say it's a bad show, but there ain't no critic who can climb into people's windows and turn off their sets.

The critics said, 'Well, Arnold can't be an administrator, he's an actor. Arnold can't be an environmentalist, he's an actor. Arnold can't be a governor, he's an actor,'

The critics represent a minority of these families. There's different ways of expressing grief and one of the ways is through anger.

The critics have been harsh all the way through my career but it doesn't affect me.

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

The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today.

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.

The findings of our studies did not fit most people's preconceived notions about how DNA molecules work, so they assumed we had to be wrong. The critics seemed very sure of themselves, and we had a lot of sleepless nights.

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become the Number 1 show in the country ,and the critics destroyed us.

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

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The main challenge here is that critics will say they haven't demonstrated the revenue growth they've promised in the past. But we like the transaction. We're comfortable with the premium and the management after the merger will be a very strong one.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Time is the only critic.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

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

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

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

Everybody's an art critic.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

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

I am a little god! Critics, be gone!

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

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

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

It's funny to be a critic.

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

Art critics are like every other critic.

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

Be a doer and not a critic.

There are no statues erected to critics.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

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

The only critic is a full house.