I saw this show under adverse circumstances – my seat was facing the stage. (On Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down.)
Critic - Criticism Quotes
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
When Woody Allen found himself seated beside Hilton Kramer at a dinner party, he could not resist asking the famously judgmental New York art critic if he ever felt embarrassed when he ran into people whose work he had attacked. “No,” Kramer replied. “I expect them to be embarrassed for doing bad work.”
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
The critic I am waiting for is the one who will explain why, with all my faults, I have been read for so many years by so many people.
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful to them, to praise, which deceives them.
