Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don’t match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can’t praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up – he rises about noon. By then, I’ve put in much of a day’s work.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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.
A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn’t feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she’s concerned, she’s just criticising a boyfriend who’d recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.
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.
I’d actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can’t be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It’s hard to be a museum curator without it, work in any senior position in an auction house or gallery, or become a serious art critic.
I DJ and I’m a harsh critic of DJs.
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn’t sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
I’ll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.
My mom is my biggest support and critic. I’ve tried to be a good son, and I don’t think I’ve given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.
My father feels that Kammula garu has done magic. At home, he is the best critic. My mother and sister kind of like everything that I do.
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.
I’m definitely my worst critic. I guess that’s good because it keeps you on your toes.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
I don’t believe in expertise. I don’t believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don’t believe that.
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.
Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won’t be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing at hand in favor of a more convenient analysis of his or her own particular pet peeves and straw men?
When I look back, I don’t have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I’m definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I’m trying very hard not to be that.
I’m a harsh critic of the status quo.
I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush. I would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
I’m from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what’s important in art.
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she’s brought to evaluate.
I’m at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I’ve always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I’m very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.
I think I’m my hardest critic. Sometimes it’s kind of bad because I’m so hard on myself and sometimes I get down.
I’m a tough critic on myself.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write.
I don’t own a gun. I’m a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don’t believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
I’m probably my biggest critic.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they’re entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with – so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
Be a doer and not a critic.
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.
If I were related to Monet, I don’t know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it’s too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they’d tear me apart.
I am a realistic type of guy. I am my biggest critic.
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration – and toughest critic.
Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you’re always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.
The lens is the actor’s best critic… showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.
I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it’s really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it’s a bit too much.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.
You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
I’m the greatest critic of my work.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
A literary critic is someone who can’t write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
