Critic Quotes

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

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

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.

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

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

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.