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.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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.
The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.
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.
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
It's funny to be a critic.
I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.
A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always, 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
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.
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.
No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.
Some critic complained about how many small films are released in New York... it annoyed me. Those small films that are lucky to get two weeks are often my favorite films of the year.
I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.