Quotes Tagged "critic"

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

A critic is a person with an appreciation seeking heart that can never find it.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

An author’s great day is releasing your book into the world like a butterfly and having a reviewer come upon it and say…oh, that’s lovely!

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Be a doer and not a critic.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.