Quotes from Judith Crist

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Artists today are in the same situation as a chimpsnzee placed in front of a Steinway Grand Piano.

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals -- only of his rights.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.