There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.