Quotes About Critic

Tudjuk: az értelmiségi mint kategória valami igen nehezen körülírható dolog. Az "értelmiségi szerepet" viszont könnyebb meghatározni. Abból áll, hogy kritikus szemmel azonosítsuk, mi az, ami hellyel-közzel kielégítÅ' módon megfelel az igazságról alkotott elképzelésünknek.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

It is only the city dweller spending his weekends in the country who goes into raptures about nature; the farmer breathes in it. It is only the uncreative critic who is given to much talking about art. For the artist himself, his art is speech sufficient. It is only a motherless time that cries out for a mother, and a deeply unmotherly age that can point to the mother as a demand of the time, for it is precisely the mother who is timeless, the same in all epochs and among all peoples.

A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or how the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

the demands of the scientific method. Before his colleagues would allow him to put a scientific paper into the public domain, they tore into his ideas, challenging his premises, doubting his methods and questioning his ability. It never occurred to Singh that he could sue a critic of his work, even if the criticism was damaging to his reputation or wholly misguided.

He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.

The Outsider is primarily a critic, and if a critic feels deeply enough about what he is criticizing, he becomes a prophet.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing- room.

When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Everybody's a critic these days.