A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
The audience is my hardest and best critic.
I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
To be honest, I don't mind Jason Gardiner, I've always found him amusing.
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Every person with a phone is a critic.
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.
It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.
