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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Some critics have suggested that Ronald Reagan succeeded in a series of careers, ultimately as a two-term president of the United States, by a series of fortunate accidents. Such a criticism is not backed by the evidence. It is true, though, that Reagan's approach to work and life was not conventional.

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

The critics don't build great cities

The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

The only critic is a full house.