The critic. . . should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.
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.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.
I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.
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.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".
Everybody's an art critic.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.