I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart. Votes: 3
James MacDonaldThe generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Votes: 3
Edgar Allan PoeAsking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. Votes: 2
John McCarthyThe critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0
Pauline KaelTo deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyThe critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. Votes: 0
Storm JamesonThe average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. Votes: 0
A. E. HousmanThe good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. Votes: 0
Anatole FranceAs an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic. Votes: 0
Michelle FairleyThe greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . Votes: 0
Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveInconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonA critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. Votes: 0
Ray FitzgeraldThe church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice. Votes: 0
Paul RobesonA critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithIt's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic. Votes: 0
Pattie MalletteWinning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic. Votes: 0
Steven FurtickAn art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWomen in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic. Votes: 0
Iggy AzaleaAs the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers. Votes: 0
Parul SehgalNever discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardHow dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Votes: 0
Arna BontempsThe man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. Votes: 0
Henry Theodore TuckermanWhen somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. Votes: 0
Leslie FiedlerI'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. Votes: 0
Alex KapranosThe critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. Votes: 0
John Mason BrownA critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. Votes: 0
Edmund Clarence StedmanNo film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.' Votes: 0
Chris RockJohn Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0
Red ButtonsThe Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'. Votes: 0
Stephen FryI'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. Votes: 0
Robert BarryThe only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. Votes: 0
Allen TateA drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Votes: 0
Wilson MiznerBlame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThe first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now. Votes: 0
Gordon Ramsaycritic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. Votes: 0
Max BeerbohmIn the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0
Pauline KaelMy mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway. Votes: 0
John UpdikeA career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. Votes: 0
Tony CampoloA critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinIf art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeA critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. Votes: 0
John Gordon SinclairThe critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. Votes: 0
Steven PressfieldI can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Votes: 0
Tricia HelferThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. Votes: 0
Anthony Trollopethe labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierI had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist." Votes: 0
Libba BrayVery often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. Votes: 0
Elia KazanSeeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing. Votes: 0
Mats SundinThere is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife Votes: 0
Stephen SpenderI am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic. Votes: 0
Vissarion BelinskyA critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. Votes: 0
Murray KemptonThere is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Votes: 0
Stephen SpenderMy primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. Votes: 0
Walter KirnThere is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife a tyrannical midwife. Votes: 0
Stephen SpenderA critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterWhenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. Votes: 0
Harold RamisA good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. Votes: 0
Francois MauriacThe relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue. Votes: 0
Ashwin SanghiPainting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. Votes: 0
Victoria GlendinningThe true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. Votes: 0
John RuskinWhen I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic. Votes: 0
RakimI'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there. Votes: 0
Aaron BrunoA critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyHe is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. Votes: 0
Henry Edward ManningWhen a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Votes: 0
Charles SaatchiYou can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band. Votes: 0
Tom MorelloI don't believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. Votes: 0
James DickeyUnfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. Votes: 0
Wilhelm SteinitzA cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others. Votes: 0
John LahrI never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. Votes: 0
Richard PryorIt is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillA man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man. Votes: 0
Robert WarshowDo you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic? Votes: 0
Brené BrownI'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that. Votes: 0
William GoldingIf I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. Votes: 0
Quentin TarantinoIt is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltThe wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardI think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female. Votes: 0
Jim GaffiganI'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror. Votes: 0
Tony GonzalezMy inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Votes: 0
Mary GardenA critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. Votes: 0
Richard Le GallienneIf you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic. Votes: 0
Starlee KineI'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong. Votes: 0
Chris BoshI'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on. Votes: 0
Mandy MooreI am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability. Votes: 0
Michael Jai WhiteI don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Votes: 3 Jean-Michel Basquiat