Critic Quotes - page 3

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it-lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew! (Rudyard Kipling)
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head. View quote
A. E. Housman
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. View quote
Walter Bagehot
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic. View quote
Carl Jung
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. View quote
H. G. Wells
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether. View quote
J. M. Coetzee
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic. View quote
James Thomas Fields
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? (George Steiner)
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! View quote
Abu Nuwas
Criticism will need an injection of humility - that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system. View quote
Jacques Barzun
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. View quote
Mark Twain
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. View quote
Ruth Reichl
Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.' View quote
Sean Covey
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. View quote
Park Chan-wook
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. (Isaac D'Israeli)
For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities. View quote
David LaChapelle
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate. View quote
Alber Elbaz
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic. View quote
Aaron Sanchez
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. View quote
Arna Bontemps