488 Quotes About Critics

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?

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?

Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

I was never a critic.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.