The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.
When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she’s angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That’s why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself.
Don’t operate on the heart with a hatchet.
Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic.
The critic’s symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else’s dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
