Critic Quotes

“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”
― Yahtzee Croshaw

“[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”
― Vivian Mercier

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”
― Suzy Kassem

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert”
― Roger Ebert

“I have studied these things - you have not.”
― Isaac Newton

“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
― Henry Adams

“The critic leaves at curtain fall
To find, in starting to review it,
He scarcely saw the play at all
For watching his reaction to it.”
― E.B. White

“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”
― Channing Pollock

“In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”
― Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez, Zori 2ª Parte

“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“No-one ever built a statue of a critic.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here...he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes.

(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly)”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“The true critic and the true reader are inextricably bound. They both recognise that literature is not just about plot or character or rhythm or rhyme. It is about meaning. It is about impact. It is about transformation.”
― Alok Mishra

“It is not the quantity of reading but the quality of engagement that defines literary worth.”
― Alok Mishra

“The modern reader must ask: what do I want from literature? Do I merely seek comfort, entertainment, prestige, or am I in search of something nobler—wisdom, empathy, truth? The way we read ultimately shapes who we are. And who we are determines what kind of world we wish to build.”
― Alok Mishra

“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied monster—even its own “critics,” or perhaps especially its “critics.” The system sells even its own “resistance,” which is why “counterculture” is, in fact, bound to and created by the very thing it claims to oppose.”
― Sov8840

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
― Napoleon Hill

“When political analysis is done with missionary zeal and copiously flows the adrenaline, the lynch mobs are never far behind. The critic is more guilty for the consequences than the subject of his criticism or the mob.”
― R. N. Prasher