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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

— Channing Pollock

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

— Howard Fast

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

— A. E. Housman

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

— Brian Lumley

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

— Oscar Wilde

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

— Italo Calvino

✗Opposing Perspectives

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

— Kenneth Tynan

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

— George Edward Woodberry