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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is (Critic Quotes)
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist (Critic Quotes)
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside (Critic Quotes)
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius (Critic Quotes)
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character (Critic Quotes)
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room (Critic Quotes)
Painting, n. : The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic (Critic Quotes)
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world (Critic Quotes)
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things (Critic Quotes)
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic (Critic Quotes)
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing (Critic Quotes)
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure (Critic Quotes)
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it (Critic Quotes)
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects (Critic Quotes)
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us (Critic Quotes)
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God (Critic Quotes)
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic (Critic Quotes)
View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, and then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis nature's fault alone where he succeeds, the merit's all his own (Critic Quotes)
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back (Critic Quotes)
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better (Critic Quotes)
What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; the critic spits on what is done, gives it a wipe - and all is gone (Critic Quotes)
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad (Critic Quotes)
If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do (Critic Quotes)
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth (Critic Quotes)
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car (Critic Quotes)
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 (Critic Quotes)
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping (Critic Quotes)
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant (Critic Quotes)
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic (Critic Quotes)
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic (Critic Quotes)