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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy. — Orrin Woodward

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. — Barbra Streisand

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. — Joseph Silk

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth. — David Lee Roth

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. — James Caan

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. — Ted Allen

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front. — Dave Evans

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. — Edmund Wilson

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms. — Bee Wilson

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. — Robert Adams

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. — William Hazlitt

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. — Dennis Potter

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. — Robert Genn

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd. — Shannon L. Alder

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do. — Paul Feig

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. — W. Somerset Maugham

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. — Doris Lessing

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers - just to upset the critics. — Bob Ross

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard. — Anton Chekhov

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion. — Michael Hersch

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. — Kevin Costner

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up. — Peter Farrelly

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. — Henry Fielding

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again. — Mel Gibson

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived). — David Edelstein

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right. — Kid Rock

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up. — Joel Osteen

I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics. — Toby Emmerich

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face. — Reggie White

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. — Thomas B. Macaulay

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. — Robert Breault

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it. — Craig Finn

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. — Maggie Stiefvater

Is vintage Bunau-Varilla: My only reply to such critics is that they have not the — David McCullough

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. — Bert Sugar

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. — Michael Stipe

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth — T.D. Jakes

I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics. — Janet Fish

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. — Edith Wharton

the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated Marines, you can share with anyone — Vincent Breit

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them. — Mary Gaitskill

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. — Ernest Hemingway,

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better. — Randy Pausch

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. — Thomas Harris

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow. — Arturo Toscanini

I don't want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it. — Charlotte Eriksson

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music. — Ellie Goulding

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E.W. Howe

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

To go after what you want in life, you have to silence the critics, starting with the biggest one: you. — Regina Brett

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow. — Yvonne Pierre

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. — Jimmy Wales

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose. — Tim McGraw

If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. — Justin Trudeau

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

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. — Katy Perry

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. — David Coverdale

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews. — Mark McGrath

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all. — Michael P. Naughton

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it. — Ricky Gervais

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

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

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! — Dita Von Teese

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

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

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. — Irwin Shaw

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. — Alice Walker

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. — Barack Obama

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views. — Stephen Cohen

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics. — Carla H. Krueger

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?' — Gavin Schmidt

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose. — T.D. Jakes

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies. — Gerald R. Ford

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway. — Laurence Olivier

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel. — Elizabeth Ann Patterson

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. — Louise Bogan

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter — Anton Chekhov

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. — Harold Rosenberg

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

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform. — Michael S. Roth

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre... — Assegid Habtewold

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

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

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. — Naomi Wolf

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act. — Eartha Kitt

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. — Samuel Goldwyn

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. — John Milius