A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgment. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgment. Critical judgments, good or bad, may be positive (in praise of an object of attention), negative (in dispraise), or balanced (weighing a combination of factors both for and against). Since all criticism must be regarded as having a purpose, a critic may also...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ... ,
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
People With This Profession:
- Panteleymon Kulish ,
- George Douglas Brown ,
- William Monahan ,
- James Dickey ,
- Jorge Luis Borges ,
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,
- Charles de Saint-Évremond ,
- Alfred Ainger ,
- Ron Burnett ,
- Virgil Thomson