Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck

It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man likes owing anything to his contemporaries. The repeated but irrelevant points...

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a ‘not good’ critic.

I don’t want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted while doing what you were created to do. Are you tough enough? God...

Don’t fall flat to deception; thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge; you are unstoppable!

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but...

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it...

I don’t read the critics.

A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen...

The Scholars”Bald heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the...

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

Yes! If you really love your beautiful garden of dreams, you will never allow any hungry beast to have its way in. Keep dream killers away!

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?””Hundreds of them.””Do they hurt?””Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They’re entitled to their opinions. They’re not the enemy.””Who is the...

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that’s the hardest thing to do.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world–they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

The truth may roar, but it’s roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is...

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that...

Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn’t born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his...

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things...

Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

Don’t bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly,...

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or...

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

There’s no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may one day receive a...

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead