#critic

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ↗

— Mark Twain

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#criticism #just #life #parasitic

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. ↗

— Hugo Black

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I criticize my own work pretty harshly. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#harshly #i #my own #own #pretty

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#american public #critics #down #estimate #every

I'm very self-critical. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#self-critical #very

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream? ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#appeals #criticism #dream #get #here

Be a doer and not a critic. ↗

— Tony Blair

#doer

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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