A critic is a proverb

 A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like
  Henry Louis Mencken

 For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

 I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party,

 Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.
  Oscar Wilde

 I make my living half as a critic, so I think that opinionated would be a good thing for a critic to be. And I think crankiness has some sort of connotation of individualism,

 The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
  Clive James

 [Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

 When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.

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

 Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
  Thornton Wilder

 Everyone is a critic right now; everybody is a mastermind of basketball. Flip is a hell of a coach. Flip doesn't shoot the basketball, doesn't get one rebound. I can't abide by that [criticism]. We believe in Flip; he believes in us.

 He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

 CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud.

And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. --Orrin Goof
  Ambrose Bierce

 One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
  William Archer


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