Critics Quotes - Page 7

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

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

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

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!