#critics

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#asking #critics #dogs #feels #like

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#critics #disease #hard #labeled #laziness

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#day #days #i #know #knows

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. ↗

— Don Henley

#critics #eagles #friends #were

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them. ↗

— Zane Grey

#burned #cannot #critics #crucify #guess

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#each #fathers #generation #leave #minds

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#critics #even #friends #going #i

I brought you some coffee.” he held out the cup but she waved it away. “I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.” At that he smiled. “How would you know what feet taste like?” “I just know.” -Luke and Clary, pg.209- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#coffee #food-critics #funny #luke #food

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#hard #hard work #lot #movies #public