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.

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

He is the English Horace

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion. Hence, the redemptive value of dissident individuals, the prophet, the critic, even the rebel, in a free community.

The modern critic in his concerted effort to undermine the structure of all religious, moral, and cultural distinctions ultimately brings these distinctions crashing down on his own head. He sets himself up as the prophet of new insights and new ideas, as the sole possessor of an infallible system of analysis - and finds himself condemned to recapitulate all the age-old distinctions of difference: Tiresias redivivus!

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

In view of the fact that Nachmanides helped to cultivate the Kabbalah, he became, as his commentary shows, a severe critic of Ibn Ezra, the outspoken opponent to the Jewish Medieval mysticism. It is Professor Schechter, who says of Nachmanides, when contrasting him with Maimonides, "If he was not a profound thinker like the author of the Guide of the Perplexed, he had that which is next best — he felt profoundly.