The audience is my hardest and best critic.
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
To be honest, I don't mind Jason Gardiner, I've always found him amusing.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Every person with a phone is a critic.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.
It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
