Critics Quotes - Page 3

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

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.

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

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.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

The critics don't build great cities

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

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

Time is the only critic.

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

There are no statues erected to critics.

where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?

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

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

A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.

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

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

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.