Critics Quotes

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

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.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

When we are high and airy hundreds sayThat if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,While those same hundreds mock another dayBecause we have made our art of common things.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.