Quotes About Critic

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

Those admirers created so strong a ballast against possible Kremlin tampering with the jury vote that it was said years later by critic Tamara Grum-Grzhimailo that the seeds of perestroika were first planted in this moment,

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.

University.   J. Gary Shaw is a retired architect and a forty-five-plus-year researcher/critic of the JFK assassination investigation and conclusions. He is a former director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas and the Assassination Archives and Research

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

Yeah well, as film critic Mitchell Prettyplace puts it in his definitive 18-volume study of King Kong, you know, he DID love her, folks.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.