Critics Quotes - Page 34

• Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

  Barack Obama

  Pages, Claims, Free Market

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• If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Decision, Made

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Museums, Matter

  "Yoko Ono answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Book, Feelings

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

  Joel Osteen

  Easy, Discouraged, Easy To Get

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• I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

  Joel Osteen

  Differences, Long, Worry

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• I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

  Joel Osteen

  Real, Heart, Want

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• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Grateful, Wells, Workers

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• Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

  Octavio Paz

  Criticism, Social, Grammar

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.263, Grove Press

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• Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

  Katy Perry

  Fun, Boards, Want

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• I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

  Tyler Perry

  Drama, Comedy, Schizophrenic

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• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Criticism, Purpose, Literature

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.2221, e-artnow

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• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fire, World, Taught

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• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Criticism, Literature

  Ezra Pound (1991). “Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a”

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• I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Growing Up, Kids

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• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Talking, Salary

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

  Lou Reed

  Doe, Velvet Underground, Care

  "Remembering Lou Reed: 10 Quotes From A True Rock God" by Sam Parker, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Judging, Judged, Romanticism

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Mind, Trying

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• You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

  Chris Rock

  People, Laughing, Needs

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• No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

  Chris Rock

  Artist, Film Critics, Madagascar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

  Nile Rodgers

  Thinking, Judging Yourself, Overcoming

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• I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

  Anne Roiphe

  Party, Two, Sometimes

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• It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Ballet

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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