Top 1010 Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

Everybody is their own critic.

I'm probably my biggest critic.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can. I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it. So I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

My family is my biggest critic.

It's not the critic that counts.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

I know I'm my own worst critic.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree on parts of the play that just didn't work. I have stopped reading reviews, because I find writing is all about courage. You must have courage when you start writing a play and you cannot have the voice - you must write things out. You cannot have the voice of a critic telling you, "That didn't work in that play, you cannot make it work in another play." Every time you do a production, it's an experimentation.

Every person with a phone is a critic.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.

It is not the critic who counts

Everybody's an art critic.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic. Your job is to unravel the "secret" or whatever, and you come across an entity like me. It's going to piss you off. Because there's no great secret, what you see is what you get, and anyone can understand what I'm doing. So, it's almost like I make this critic-person redundant, just by my attitude, and they resent me for that.

I'm always my worst critic.

I was never a critic.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I'm always going to be my worst critic.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I was my worst critic ever.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

Time is the only critic.

Now everyone is a critic.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

The only critic is a full house.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

No critic ever changed the world.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

The way I try to explain it the best is that if Critic A from publication A hates our show, and Critic B from publication B loves our show, what are we supposed to do with that? We have to just respect everyone's opinions and go on making the show we want to make. I've never worked on a show that was altered by critical reception. You just can't afford to do that. So in that regard, it's actually no different that working in theater. It's just a lot more voices.

Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I am my own biggest critic.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

It's funny to be a critic.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

I'm my own worst critic.

Nothing is critic-proof.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

It's not the critic who counts.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

The audience is my hardest and best critic.