There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
We’re not trying to entertain the critics… I’ll take my chances with the public.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, the people said, a weed.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
If a man is often the subject of comment in society, he is criticized.
Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.
Criticism didn’t really stop us and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
