Critical Opinion Quotes

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

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

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

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

I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.