It's funny to be a critic.
Leslie Fiedler

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones

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

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
John Hall

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Nat King Cole

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
Mary Garden

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini

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

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
Mats Sundin

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
Lynn Lavner

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