Quotes About Critics

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it's yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?

Los críticos de nuestros días que, con tremenda pomposidad, dicen que todas las novelas, obras de teatro y poemas no son más que textos – ¡el autor de la guillotina!– no deberían olvidarse del caso de Flaubert. Un siglo antes que ellos ya estaba redactando textos y negando la significación de su propia personalidad.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Mockers = Crown Polishers

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.

While it is true that Aurangzeb is a more complex and pragmatic figure than some of his critics allow, the religious wounds Aurangzeb opened in India have never entirely healed, and at the time they tore the country in two.