The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist. "
Time is the only critic without ambition.
It is not the critic who counts
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.
Humility is a very important trait in a critic.
Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection. "
I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.
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. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
I'm a tough critic on myself.
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.