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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. — Richard Pryor

I realize that sometimes we are our biggest critic, and that the person we have the hardest time gaining approval from is usually ourselves. — Lindy Zart

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins. — Criss Jami

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier — Gustave Flaubert

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic? — Brene Brown

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — G.K. Chesterton

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life. — George Jean Nathan

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic. — Sri Chinmoy

The critic who doesn't accept a criticism, is a hypocrite — Valgame

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. — Kieron Gillen

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. — D.H. Lawrence

No-one ever built a statue of a critic. — David Nicholls

CRITIC OR CITRIC?
Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talented
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Don't be your own worst critic. If you're not confident in what you're saying, no one else will be either. — Travis Bradberry

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck

Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor. — David Foster Wallace

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. — Max Beerbohm

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once ... that's not a bad thing. — Mats Sundin

Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves. — Brene Brown

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson) — William James

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. — Denis Waitley

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. — Quentin Tarantino

Time is the only critic without ambition - John Steinbeck — Moll Molone

Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic — Werner Erhard

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. — Lawrence Durrell

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. — Jewel Staite

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. — Milan Kundera

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. — Christopher McDougall

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows? — Christian Slater

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector. — Michael Bassey Johnson

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. — Mason Cooley

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. — Robert Morgan

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. — Max Muller

I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch. — R.D. Ronald

Nor in the critic let the man be lost. — Alexander Pope

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. — Roger Ebert

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

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic. — T.F. Hodge

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager. — Chris Matthews

As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period. — Claude Monet

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways. — James Young

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. — Ridley Scott

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. — Douglas Sirk

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong. — Chris Bosh

I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails. — Judy L Mohr

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes. — Luis Suarez

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times. — Hans Zimmer

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway. — John Updike

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic. — Raymond Chandler

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. — Whitney Balliett

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like. — H.L. Mencken

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. — Lynn Lavner

It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions. — Mick Karabegovic

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going. — Robin Williams

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. — Nile Rodgers

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. — Ambrose Bierce

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. — James Whistler

You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines. — Lucille Kallen

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder. — Myles Horton

Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun. — Richard Sherman

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. — E.B. White

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. — Gustave Flaubert

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. — Robert Sheckley

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth ... the critic — Mel Brooks

For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off. — Terry Teachout

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic. — Devon Aoki

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. — Edward Abbey

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. — William Shenstone

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner

A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded. — Sander Vanocur

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic. — Aristotle.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it. — Mimi Sheraton

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. — Kirk Douglas

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting. — Thomas Hardy

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. — Heather Matarazzo

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers. — Parul Sehgal

I'm a tough critic on myself. — Dave Franco

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president. — Rudy Giuliani

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde

Like many of my fellow preachers I acknowledge that my best and severest critic is my wife. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones