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Tag Name "Critic" (418)

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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Mason Cooley
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Ambrose Bierce
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Samuel Johnson
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Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, He's a genius, to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.
Gary Giddins
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Critics should help people see for themselves they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
Georges Braque
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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
Whitney Balliett
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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
Edward de Bono
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Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.
Frank Sinatra
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Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
Abu Nuwas
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
Edward Abbey
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
Edward Albee
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As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.
Daniel Gillies
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan
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I'm a tough critic on myself.
Dave Franco
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I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.
Emmy Rossum
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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
Dave Matthews
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Eugene Ionesco
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I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
David LaChapelle
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
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I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
David S. Goyer
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At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
Francois Truffaut
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Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.
David Toop
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It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Winston Churchill
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