A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Tyne Daly

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Bern Williams

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop

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!
Brian Lumley

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
Mark Tobey

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.
Robert Mondavi

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Mason Cooley

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
Helmut Jahn

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone